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S. T. Taylor
| Name | S. T. Taylor |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway 930 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Händler mit Modeartikeln |
| Anmerkungen | Bezeichnet als "Importer of French Fashion Journals and Paris, Patterns, also Proprietor of the Art of Dress-Cutting". |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 281] |
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Ereignis |
| 1848 |
S. T. Taylor veröffentlicht seine Erfindung unter dem Namen SYSTEM, |
| 1848 |
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| Einfuhr von Modezeitschriften |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | S. T. Taylor, of No. 930 Broadway, is one of the celebrated and worthy business men of the great metropolis, and one of those justly spoken of as a leader in, and the representative member of, his branch of trade. S. T. Taylor's business has now been established in this city for the last thirty-six years, and during this long period he has ever stood at the head of all competitors. S. T. Tayloris the inventor and sole proprietor of the only system of dress-cutting that is not a chart. and which is the only perfect system of actual measurement in existence. It has become recognized as such all through America, and though ignorant pretenders and unprincipled imitators have sought to impose their own worthless systems upon the public, yet wherever S. T. Taylor's system is once tried all others are discarded. It is the only true system and necessarily the best for many reasons, which are fully set forth in a book published by S. T. Taylor and which is entitled," The Theory and Art of Dress." Here S. T. Taylor treats at length of the science of dressmaking, throwing out many practical suggestions on .the. subject, and which is the most valuable treatise on the subject ever written. We cannot do better in this review than quote an eloquent passage illustrative of his conscientious efforts on behalf of dressmakers. He says: We are not for "reform" in dress as that abused term is now generally understood. We have no new gospel to proclaim. We stand now, as always, for refined taste and elegance in matters of dress. For thirty-five years we have striven with voice and pen and with all our heart and strength to promote and elevate the art of dress and the artist in dress in this country. We have tried to extend our helping hand to all kinds and condi tions of women - to those who wear cotton and those who wear velvets; to the poor as well as the rich; to the hum ble girl as well as the lady who rides in the glittering carriage of Dives. We shall continue to do so. We believe the dress that shows taste and sentiment is elevating to the home, mind and person, and is one of the most feminine, means of beautifying the world. Anything which will promote that object will work a true reform in dress". We have ever labored in that direction and accomplished more than all other American houses for it. He fully describes the advantages of his true system of the art of dress-cutting, which is strictly one of actual measurements, that can be said of no other method, and it is the ONLY SYSTEM NOT A CHART. It is the only perfect system, and has never had a competitor worthy of the name. Unique in principle and incomparable in merit it remains a permanent monument to S. T. Taylor's talents and genius. It was invented and published by him in 1848 under the name of SYSTEM, and from that time up to the present it has grown in favor under the same title, while chart-venders have clothed their frauds with every alluring name. S. T. Taylor's system is the only one by which dresses are actually drafted from measurements by means of a square only, while all the lengths and the widths of the waist are obtained from measures taken of the figure for which the garment is intended, in the same manner as practised by tailors in cutting gentlemen's garments. . When this system is used a lady can leave her measure and material with her dressmaker, and have her dress returned to her with the same precision of fit as the gentleman who orders a coat from his tailor. In fact it elevates the art of dress-cutting to the art of the tailor. It not only produces the best and most satisfactory results obtainable, but it enables one to do much more of the same kind of work in the same length of time. It saves time and therefore likewise saves money. To persons knowing this system thor- oughly, and understanding the ready application of its principles, it becomes a capital in business arid a source of profit, cutters by this system always commanding the highest salaries. S. T. Taylor s system has long claimed the attention of scientific men as one of the great inventions of the day, and is now used in most of the large and popular dress-making establishments in the United States, while it is taught in the leading seminaries of the country. There are thousands of ladies in this country to-day who will not have a dress made unless it is cut by this system, and competent dressmakers are commanding; plenty of work the year round at much improved prices. S. T. Taylor is the sole importer of the four leading fashion journals of the world, viz., Revue de la Mode, Le Bou Ton and Le Moniteur de la Mode, Le Monde Elegant, and La Modiste Universelle. The first three are mainly devoted to the interests of dressmakers, and the latter to milliners. These journals are carefully anglicised by S. T. Taylor, and being published in Paris, contain the designs of the famous leaders of fashion in that great centre. They are beautifully printed magazines, containing large colored plates of the various styles, and have deservedly attained a very wide circulation in America. S. T. Taylor likewise makes a specialty of importing all the new patterns from Paris, much the finest and latest offered to American ladies, and are graceful and artistic in shape and complete in every detail. His is the only house in the United States that imports them, and to insure their being embodiments of the very latest styles he constantly employs an efficient corps of agents in Paris, selecting, culling out, and shipping to him the choicest and latest products of the leading Parisian designers. He sustains the closest relations with all the great Paris fashion houses, and the patterns of everything tasteful, stylish, and original appearing in Paris can always be purchased in S. T. Taylor's emporium a few days after. His pattern agencies are to be found in all the cities, towns, and large villages of the United States, and where his publications can also be obtained. He also has a bureau for buyers, possessed of unrivalled facilities for the supply of all descriptions of goods, selected by his experts, and bound to give entire satisfaction to buyers. He likewise keeps on hand a full line of dressmakers' appurtenances, etc., etc.. and his spacious establishment is a vc-ntable emporium of fashion and its allies. He occupies the entire building No. 930 Broadway, with the exception of the first floor, and has elegantly furnished and fitted offices and show-rooms, wherein a most magnificent display of the latest fashions is made, and which is one of the representative features of the trade. Upwards of seventy-five hands are steadily employed in the various departments, and all under the close personal supervision of S. T. Taylor. He has done more for the elevation and aid of dressmakers and milliners than any other man in America, exemplified in his peerless system of dress-cutting and auxiliary facilities, and he stands the true exponent of scientific progress in all that appertains to ladies' dress. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 281] |
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