Let Us Be Your Tailor. American Woolen Mills Co. Chicago. Style Book. Standard Fashions Fall & Winter 1903-1904

Chicago: American Woolen Mills Co, 1903. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 30 by 22 cm. Unpaginated, 20 pp. Eight of the pages can be described as color plates, with their illustrations of men in the company's suits, overcoats, vests. Seven pages feature large photos. Five of these gray/red and white photos are of the company's plant -- the stock department, the designing (cutting) department, the coat shop, etc. These photos hark back to when much of the work in a garment factory was done by hand, with significant input from machines. Captured is the press of workers in these large, cavernous rooms. With the color plates, the fashions are shown with three or four men per page, and these men, all drawn, epitomize the ideal handsome man of the day. Scarce -- no copies found on OCLC First Search or elsewhere. A 1920/1 catalogue of the company is held by U. of Rhode Island. Condition: light foxing on title page. Closed tear along fold of first leaf. Light to moderate wear besides.