Tailoring of the Better Class scrapbook image

Tailoring of the Better Class
Chicago, IL
1921
This scrapbook collages magazine and other material onto the repurposed pages of the J. L. Taylor & Co. catalogue of pure wool fabrics and models for the Fall and Winter Season, 1921-22. We'll be featuring a page from this magnificent album — subtitled "Tailoring of the Better Class" — each day this week. The book measures 16 by 23 inches, and weighs 15 pounds; verso pages showed the wool samples (all removed), recto pages showed the fashion plates. In one of the more colorful and even surrealistic assemblages encountered in this scrapbook, images of fruit share space with random examples of Edwardian men's fashion.

From the collection of John McVey.

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I like this whole series by John McVey very much. Thank you!
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