"Tailor-made" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... laughed Betty, for Roberta's belongings were all as trim and tailor-made as herself. "How did you get ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... English tailor-made dresses well enough for walking, Mr. Stephens," said Miss Sadie from behind them. "But for an afternoon dress, I think the French have more style than the English. Your milliners have a more severe cut, and ...
— A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" • A. Conan Doyle
... numberless proofs in Galds' writings that he does not stick to observed or possible happenings as a genuine realist should. Here, every woman will perceive the extreme unlikelihood that a tailor-made gown can be worn at once with success and without alteration by another woman than the one ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... effect of cheapening the better class of garments prodigiously. We had done away with prohibitive prices and greatly improved the popular taste. Indeed, the Russian Jew had made the average American girl a "tailor-made" girl. ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... York. "Mother's in Paris," he volunteered, "and Dad's in New York meeting her bills. But the Old Man's got a grouch at me, and so he sent me 'way out here in this God-forsaken country! Say, what did they make this country for? Got any tailor-made cigarettes about you? How did Broadway look when you were there last? Lights all there yet at night? I've been here two years—it seems like two hundred! Talk about Robinson Crusoe! Say, I've got ...
— The River and I • John G. Neihardt
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