Sator
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Many here have noted how their tailors are close to retirement age. One of my tailors has retired once before - early - but was so bored he opened another store. They all tell me they have not passed on their skills to the next generation. My main tailor's son has an IT degree and has no interest in taking up his father's trade. The question that dogs me sometimes is what on earth I will do when my tailor retires. Do these thoughts worry anyone else here? What are you doing about it? Do you put in extra orders from your tailor in case he retires early? Lady Dorothy Nevill reminisced on the dress of the latter half of the 19th century: In my early childhood there were still men living , who had not abandoned the eighteenth century fashion of wearing a wig. This custom, indeed, did not entirely die out with the coming of the nineteenth century, some old-fashioned people continuing to wear these head coverings as late as the early thirties. The last man to wear a pigtail is said to have been one of the Cambridge dons, who retained it as late as the year 1835. If SF had existed in the 1830s would there have been threads on "what will you do when your wig maker retires"? Or does it not matter if tailored clothing is going the way of the pigtail anyway?
