The Monthly record of fashion, ed. by T.D. Humphreys, Volume 9Thomas Darwin Humphreys 1884 |
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Adelaide Street Balance Lines Block Patterns Booksellers and Newsagents bottom breast measure Breeches Bust button Capes carriage paid cent Centre Point Charing Cross chest Chesterfield cloth collar COMPAING and LOUIS cutter Cutting Board Dear Devere's diagram Disproportion Dolman Draft to Measure Dress Coat Editor Editor's Cutting Fashion Plates figure Foremen Tailors forepart fork Frock Coat front Gaiters garments give Graduated Tapes Hall Court Holding's inches Jacket JAMES PLATT Journal Kelso Place Kensington Ladies legs length letter Livery London Tailor LOUIS DEVERE Lounge MANCHESTER WAREHOUSEMEN mark Marshall meeting Messrs Morning Coat Newmarket Norfolk Jacket Overcoat Paletots paper parcels post free Price readers Record of Fashion Riding scye seam seat sent Shilling side Simpkin sizes skirt sleeve Society Stationers Stout System T. H. HOLDING TAILOR AND RECORD trade Trousers Cutting Ulster Vest waist Wampen's West of England West-End width Woodall
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Page 100 - Interest, repayable on demand. The Bank undertakes for its Customers, free of charge, the custody of Deeds, Writings, and other Securities and Valuables ; the collection of Bills of Exchange, Dividends, and Coupons: and the purchase and sale of Stocks, Shares, and Annuities. Letters of Credit and Circular Notes issued. A Pamphlet, with full particulars, on application.
Page 56 - The Bank also receives money on Deposit at Three per cent. Interest, repayable on demand. The Bank undertakes for its Customers, free of charge, the custody of Deeds, Writings...
Page 92 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — To thine...
Page ii - Bankers, and Interest allowed on the minimum monthly balances when not drawn below £25. No commission charged for keeping Accounts. The Bank also receives money on Deposit at Three per cent. Interest, repayable on demand. The Bank undertakes for its Customers, free of charge, the custody of...
Page 282 - Various decrees of Stoutness. — The Long and Short Leg Theory. — Illusions and Fallacies. — General Observations. — The Academy System. — Manner of Drafting. — The Dress. — Balance Marks. — Balance Lines. — Breeches and Pantaloons. — The Old Style of Cutting. — JW Holding's System for Trousers and Breeches. — Concluding Remarks in First Edition. — Appendix to Second Edition. — The Academy System for Trousers. London: Simpkin, Marshall if Co., 4, Stationers' Hall Court,...
Page 80 - The Birkbeck Building Society's Annual Receipts exceed FOUR MILLIONS. HOW TO PURCHASE A HOUSE FOR TWO GUINEAS PER MONTH, with immediate possession, and no Rent to pay. Apply at the Office of the BIRKBECK BUILDING SOCIETY.
Page 92 - The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page ii - HOW TO PURCHASE A PLOT OF LAND FOR FIVE SHILLINGS PER MONTH, with immediate possession, either for Building or Gardening purposes. Apply at the Office of the BIRKBECK FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY. A Pamphlet, with full particulars, on application.
Page 56 - Bank also receives money on Deposit at Three per cent. Interest, repayable on demand. The Bank undertakes for its Customers, free of charge, the custody of Deeds, Writings, and other Securities and Valuables ; the collection of Bills of Exchange, Dividends, and Coupons ; and the purchase and Sale of Stocks.
Page 102 - MA (First Edition published in July, 1882). Its contents are as follows : — Introduction. — Dr. Wampen's System. — The Academy System. — Normal Quantities. — Corpulence. — Sleeves. — PLATE 1. — The Old Third's System. — Disproportion. — PLATE 2. — The Academy System. — The Proportionate Model. — Disproportion. — Stooping Figure. — Fallacies. — Indentations. — Skirts.