Winston Churchill refused to pay his tailor’s bills

December 3, 2015 By creative

Refusal to pay the bills of one's tailor was famously almost a point of honor among English gentlemen in past centuries and Winston Churchill was no exception, newly released archives show. Britain's World War Two leader had racked up a bill of 197 pounds by 1937 – around 12,000 pounds ($18,000) at today's prices – with Savile Row tailor Henry Poole and Co before he was finally asked to pay up. Despite the arrears, the tailor had continued to make clothes for Churchill, said James Sherwood, a historian who has examined Poole and Co's archives.

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UK wartime leader Winston Churchill refused to pay his tailor’s bills

December 3, 2015 By publisher

Refusal to pay the bills of one's tailor was famously almost a point of honour among English gentlemen in past centuries and Winston Churchill was no exception, newly released archives show. Britain's World War Two leader had racked up a bill of 197 pounds by 1937 – around 12,000 pounds at today's prices – with Savile Row tailor Henry Poole and Co before he was finally asked to pay up. Despite the arrears, the tailor had continued to make clothes for Churchill, said James Sherwood, a historian who has examined Poole and Co's archives.

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Top fashion CEOs fear rising costs from climate change

December 3, 2015 By admin

The chief executives of seven top clothing companies, including Hennes & Mauritz Gap and Adidas , are calling on governments to agree a strong climate change deal, saying they fear global warming will drive up their costs. Almost 200 nations are meeting in Paris until Dec. 11, trying to work out a deal to limit a rise in temperatures blamed on increasing emissions of greenhouse gases. “We come together to acknowledge that climate change is harming the world in which we operate,” read the joint declaration, also signed by heads of Levi Strauss, Timberland-owner VF Corp , Eileen Fisher and Burton Snowboards.

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