| SKELETON TAILOR Footage of the new measuring device designed to make suit fitting simple, London. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7135 |
| Catalog #: | 41769 | |
| Clip Number: | 41769-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NP 229 | |
| Timecode: | 01:22:06 - 01:22:52 | |
| Location: | London. | |
| Year Shot: | 1949 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FASHION: Men's INDUSTRY: Garment LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London OCCUPATIONS: Tailor / Dressmaker / Milliners / Cobbler | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 312985 Regent Street, London. M/Ss of a tailor fitting a man with the new "Skeleton" tailor. The device incorporates a series of tape measures that fit around the body so that "with scientific accuracy every contour and thickness of the human body" is measure. Several shots of the man's measurements being taken. Tailor uses skeleton like apparatus to measure customer. It is a measuring tape that wraps around the man to measure each dimension. Clothing, manufacturing | |
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