
American Ivy: Chapter 2
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Henry Brooks's Pre-Made Clothing
Henry Brooks established a business model for what it becomes then this mass industry. He proved that ready-made clothes were for refined people too, he says. With pre-made clothes and pre-fixed prices, no longer haggling and bartering or going to get measured. Now you could walk into a shop, enjoy the entertainment of holding up and trying on garments, and walk out with something - or nothing.
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