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Henry Poole: Founders of Savile Row - The Making of a Legend

Henry Poole: Founders of Savile Row - The Making of a Legend


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A Savile Row suite is universally understood to be the best one can buy. There is no other street in the world that has come such a byword for excellence. One tailor - Henry Poole - is responsible for this. Carefully researched and beautifully illustrated this book chronicles the evolution of Savile Row and the emergence of Henry Poole as the premier tailor with a fascinating list of clients. Throughout the world 'a Savile Row suit' is universally understood to be the very best one can possibly buy. There can be few other streets in the world that have become such a byword for excellence. One tailor more than any other is responsible for this international reputation - Henry Poole and Company. Yet how did this prominence come about? Henry Poole - The Making of a Legend is more than just the story of a company's rise to prominence. Carefully researched from the company's extensive archives, amongst many other sources, this book will fascinate the reader on a number of levels. It chronicles the evolution of Savile Row as well as encompassing a social record of Britain's international emergence. At the same time it documents how fashions have changed and progressed. The pages of Henry Poole - The Making of a Legend reflect almost two centuries of the ebb and flow of corporate survival with financial successes followed by perilous trading and near bankruptcy. Behind the discreet glamour of the bespoke tailoring trade there were dark sides; the the Row - There's no such thing as bad publicity - Goodbye to Everett Street - Royal Court and the Racecourse - Into the Row - The Life of a Gentleman - Happiness, Pride and Disater - The Burial of the Dead - Wampum and War Paint - The End of Civilisation - Poole has spoken - 1939 to 1955 - 1956 to 1970 - Return to the Row - 1986 to Present

About the Author :
Stephen Howarth is a well-respected writer and historian with special expertise in corporate, maritime and naval subjects. Amongst twelve published books and numerous articles, he has attracted international attention with his histories of P&O and Shell, a biography of Nelson (co-written with his father David Howarth) as well as studies of The Imperial Japanese Navy and The US Navy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Historical Society.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781903071069
  • Publisher: Bene Factum Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Bene Factum Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 246 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 768 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1903071062
  • Publisher Date: 17 Feb 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Founders of Savile Row - The Making of a Legend
  • Width: 189 mm


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