James Blackwood and Son

JAMES BLACKWOOD AND SON, Merchant Tailors, 55, Hope Street, Glasgow.

    Amongst the firms representing the sartorial profession in Glasgow a premier position must be assigned to the eminent house of Messrs. James Blackwood and Son, merchant tailors, 55, Hope Street, to whom we are indebted for the material for this notice.

    The business is one of the oldest in the City, having been established as far back as 1835 by Mr. James Blackwood, the firm subsequently assuming the title it now bears, the present sole proprietor being Mr. William Blackwood, trading under the style indicated above. The firm’s premises in Hope Street comprise handsome and commodious building, with spacious warehouse and counting house on the ground floor, and a large saloon in rear arranged as cutting and fitting-on rooms. The firm in no way rely upon external display, the trade being essentially of a high-class character ; but they have one window dressed with summer overcoatings, Cheviots, Scotch tweeds, home-spun and other new season’s novelties in fashionable materials. The workshops are situated on the upper floor of the building and are spacious, well ventilated, and sanitarily perfect, providing every convenience for the numerous staff of workmen employed by the firm, telephonic communication being established between this department and the warehouse below by private wire.

    A very influential and numerous clientele has been established by the firm, which embraces the patronage of many of the leading nobility and gentry in Scotland and England, the trade being exclusively select and entirely confined to the wealthier classes. The services of an adequate staff of experienced cutters and workpeople are retained in the business, which is admirably conducted under the strict personal direction of the principal, whose thoroughly practical and intimate knowledge of every detail of his art secures for his patrons that exactness of fit and perfection of style which form the essential elements of the high-class trade done by the firm, and which have elevated this house to the leading ranks of successful commercial enterprise in the City.

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