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Savile Row|ˈsævɪl rəʊ|
The name of a street in London celebrated for fashionable and expensive tailoring establishments, used attrib. to designate such tailors, their styles, or wares, esp. men's suits.
1896G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 13 June 597/2 A suit turned out by a Savile Row tailor. 1934Cornh. Mag. Sept. 366 Sinai, like a Savile Row tailor,..does not display its goods in the shop window for all to see. 1946A. Christie Hollow xxiv. 206 She took in the Savile Row cut of Edward's clothes. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xii. 126 ‘I'll come along and help.’ ‘Not in that Savile Row suit, you won't.’ 1955T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences vii. 172 The tendency to conform with fashion, but not its extremes, marks the Savile Row tailor. 1972M. Farhi Pleasure of your Death ii. 43 Van Loon..looked like a foetus—stillborn in a Savile Row suit. |