Shirtings Sample Book
Beyond falling madly in love with it, I don’t know a whole lot about this sample book.
I know that it’s a pre-WWII in-store fabric sample book from Stackpole, Moore, Tryon Co., that was used by a tailor to sell custom shirtings. These were utilitarian trade tools, not meant to survive, which is why complete examples with fabric and ads and ephemera are scarce.
It’s a fabric sample book, but honestly, it’s more like a very chill tailor’s personal scrapbook. The sample book is full to the brim with fold-out advertising for mid-1930s men’s fashions. And the fabric samples themselves are to die for.
Although he must have been a very popular tailor because he had run out of many of the fabrics. OUT, OUT, OUT!
