On 6/9/2015 7:14 PM, Richard Aiken wrote:
>
> I'm not sure how well it maps to real life (at least in the current
> modern day). But I'm also put in mind of things I've read or seen on
> screen (most recently in the movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service")
> about exclusive tailors. E.g. you not only need the "right" cloth and
> the "right" pattern, but you need to have it made by precisely the
> "right" firm. The presumption is - of course - that said firm only
> creates clothing for the "right" people, thus making the fact that you
> were "allowed" to purchase such attire proof of your "rightness."

Look up some of the tailors on Savile Row or the history of Thomas Pink
(aka Mr. Pink of Jermyn Street) for two examples.  Some of these tailors
have exclusive rights to patterns and designs that they've had for
decades, if not centuries.

It's like a client one explained when he bought his fifth Mont Blanc
pen; "It isn't that the pen writes any better or any smoother; rather
it's a statement that when I take it out and put it on the pen that
those who know what it is know that I'm there for business, not to chit
chat or to be one of the guys, but business.  Those who don't know what
it is or means, well, they soon get educated."

--
Kurt Feltenberger
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“Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not
living enough." - Me