Hugo Boss 1928
Hugo Ferdinand Boss (8 July 1885 – 9 August 1948)[1] was a German businessman who founded the fashion house Hugo Boss. He was an active member of the Nazi Party from 1931 and remained so until Nazi Germany’s capitulation. His clothing company also utilized forced labor drawn from German-occupied territories and prisoner-of-war camps to manufacture military uniforms for the Schutzstaffel and Wehrmacht.0
There is a progressive narrative to weaken the west. This is not new, but part of totalitarian winning without a shot.
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Demoralized people do not show up nor stand up for their formality, their expertise, their convictions.
As well as Communist United front money, over a Trillion dollars of Quatar money has gone to our universities since the 1990’s to view discipline and masculinity as a Caucasian and colonial, racist trait. This is rich coming from countries that restrict media and the rule of law. As well like Russia claiming that Ukraine are the totalitarians. Or China claiming that Taiwan as they look Chinese must behave like Communists.
In our personal area of influence, disciplines strength to change the world daily. My purpose is to allow the craft of bespoke fit via Tailoringdesign initially, then handcrafting for the absolute driven to once again to be an important value for society.
This old industry’s demise started with the introduction of manufactured sizes for “re-tailors”. In 1928 a German businessman named Hugo Boss had joined the Nazi party and received forced (free) labor, mostly Jewish tailors. After which the European Holocaust prevailed with a conservative estimate loss of 10,000 European old school tailors, the hand industry had collapsed in Germany. This prompted the loss of tailoring standards and tailors, Tailors today lack associations and that is why with the web Samson Wardrobes can be an asset to the bespoke fit service industry.
The invention of the “size
This was made in a workshop line, around 1860 for military. The industry has been essential for creating employment and a stable middle class for hundreds of years, far before ready-made clothing and globalization. Eventually tailoringdesign with the web can be competitive simply through efficiency , lower overhead and results. It will create an awareness of human values in a world of AI and humanoids in the next decade. I believe the human contact, will prompt a market for TD and even hand made on premise. With national production, this also opens jobs to being a sewers, who learn various tailoring processes. Eventually being a master tailor and moving on to self employment as a bespoke tailor. All the while opening up more work that humanoids cannot do. All these tailors need then need to do is learn to take designer measurements and to cut as I have. Suppliers of wool fibers from locally grown sheep to milling cloth in USA, to made to measure manufacturing in the Americas. After 60 years of importation of sizes, this type of tailored substance and personalization will be welcome.
Designers as good communicators will be an asset to bespoke tailors today or in future. Allowing new designers to join up with immigrant or local alterations and hand tailors. Designers are needed to build confidence in clients own choices. Often being persistent on getting classic quality is what is recognized as looking smart. A TD is there to add quality to customers whims and ideas. This lends credibility to the confidence of outcome. As one cannot separate one’s choices from intelligence, a TD is there to share the simple objectivity of dressing well and take out the mystery.
The word “re-tailor” is a post tailoring era term left over from the early 1900 industrial age. In the 1900’s a need for mass distribution via “retail” stores was created with department stores. Garments were then recut or re-tailor(ed). Major alterations like re cutting a back , collar or sleeves that is rarely done today. Mostly like on high end garments for smart clients that really see fit.
Since the demise of European tailors in two world wars, the standards of tailored fit have fallen to the lowest common denominator wrinkles from poor fit everywhere you look! This is an opportunity for any TD. The loss of this trade is your opportunity in the future. Many may think and hope for computer body scanners, but in the last 10 years none have
been successful and are mostly hype. This hope is redundant when people know your good work. This problem waiting for the messiah of computer tailoring is that due to the fact that they need tailors to program and this is an oxymoron. Besides the cost of overhead, equipment and branding is going to compete with your personality, motivation and reputation. Simply done with 15 minutes of measurements. There will always be people that believe in reputation and people over machines. With retail inflation and more coming it is and will be less expensive now to have a tailoring designer (starting out with low end) will be certainly less expensive than in the future for better cloths.
From Abraham selling idols in Sumer (Iraq) to present day brand worshop-pers are failing to know or believe in themselves but want validation for the style of the day rather than be authentic in quality. Inquiry into quality takes patience and appreciation how things are made, a good first world problem to have. Our lives are a series of knots or challenges. The more illusions we have the tighter the knot. We are inevitably made up of memories we create as we live out each scene and each frame is lit with depth in our lifespan movie of 100 trillion frames, featuring you. A designers job is to move men from material 3 dimensions to spirit, that powerful 4th dimension of time.