Monday, August 8, 2011

The Great Chicago Merchant Tailors

M. Born and Co. produced this trade card around 1880.

10 comments:

  1. This is such a neat postcard. I like the subtle humor with the clerk behind the counter watching a rotund guy measure the tall thin guy.

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  2. It's not what you have, it's...how you measure it.:)
    Nice, funny, old postcard - from when Americans were skinny.
    We're becoming a "no waist"-land.

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  3. Great comic illustration. Very representative of its time!

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  4. Is the woman:

    1. stifling a giggle?

    2. burping?

    3. getting the vapors at his mere handsome-ness?

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  5. Several of my ancestors were Chicago tailors. I wonder if they might have worked at M. Born & Co.
    Barbara

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  6. Love the characters and the sight gag, hope he bought a pair of suspenders too!

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  7. This is like Jack Sprat who is also like my husband who has weighed the same since he was in HS!

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  8. They aren't going to make much on a fabric purchase from that fella.

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  9. Great Postcard !!!
    I recently found a large art print with " Ed. V. Price & Company " Merchant Tailors Chicago, " Who's Your Tailor "
    Print is of two young girls ( sisters ) playing at home with 3 small dogs. The girls are both dressed in a very elegant white laced dress. Any ideas on this print's name ?

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  10. Anonymous,
    I'm sorry to say that I have no idea what the name of the print might be. You could check with folks at the Ephemera Society: http://www.ephemerasociety.org/

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