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Updated: May 3, 2025
It appears that there are two distinct tailor trades the "honourable" trade, now almost confined to the West End, and rapidly dying out there, and the "dishonourable" trade of the show-shops and slop-shops the plate-glass palaces, where gents and, alas! those who would be indignant at that name buy their cheap-and-nasty clothes.
"But let us turn to a subject more fruitful. London seemed like a great waste of dingy dwellings and badly constructed palaces, the whole sleeping under a canopy of sickly smoke. Everything wore a sombre, heavy air even the men seemed born to methodize on some one object. Show-shops, beer-shops, and gin-palaces, made the very air reek with their stifling fumes.
He would say to the numberless persons who applied, "they were not show-shops, nor he a showman." When he did grant permission he always gave the obliged parties fully and unmistakably to understand that he was conferring upon them a great favour. His temper was suspicious.
At all events, the owners of these show-shops realize a far higher profit than need be, while the buildings required for a tailoring establishment are surely not more costly than those absurd plate-glass fronts, and brass scroll-work chandeliers, and puffs, and paid poets.
What was to be done? We applied for work at several "honourable shops"; but at all we received the same answer. Their trade was decreasing the public ran daily more and more to the cheap show-shops and they themselves were forced, in order to compete with these latter, to put more and more of their work out at contract prices. Facilis descensus Averni!
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