Here are some extracts taken from the original publication. On the one hand you can have a good giggle at the moustached chaps with 'Floreka' waxed hair-do's, on the other you can reflect that this famous shirtmaker has always been on the 'cutting edge' of advertising...

Pricing is given in pre-decimalised Sterling. 8/6 represents 8 shillings and 6 pence, equivalent to 42.5p in decimalised Sterling or approximately US 60c. It might be useful to note that the 1905 publication lists 1 Pound Sterling (that's 20 shillings) as being worth 4 Dollars 88 cents in US currency!

Hope you find this entertaining and useful, just choose a category:

• Dress Shirts
• Coat Shirts - the "Stock Exchange" & "Surgeon's"
• Coloured Shirts - Soft and Stiff fronted
• Flannel Shirts
• "Premier" Flannel - for the more discerning
• Pyjama Suits - Tailored and Ready-made
• Underwear
• The "Stowaway" Suspensory
• The "Traveller" Trouser Stretcher and Press

• Business Arrangements
• Notes for washing flannels
• Notes on Shirts
• Notes on Foreign Outfits
• Jermyn street

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