Melville & Ross

MELVILLE & ROSS, Tailors and Clothiers, 67, Jamaica Street, Glasgow.

    Amongst the more recent additions to the ranks of commercial enterprise in this great Northern centre of industry, we have pleasure in directing the attention of our readers to the establishment so ably conducted by Messrs. Melville & Ross, Tailors and Clothiers, 67, Jamaica Street, which supplies the subject of this sketch.

    The firm, in commencing business in 1890, selected as the base of their operations the spacious premises situated in the above busy thoroughfare, presenting every advantage for the effective display of their high-class stock. The establishment is of handsome and imposing proportions, having large and well-arranged windows and extensive show room on the ground floor, with cutting and trying-on rooms in the rear.

    Here, the firm offer for selection a diversified assortment of high-class materials, including all the season’s novelties in Meltons, beavers, diagonals, Scotch Angolas, Saxony, West of England, and tweeds in great variety for suitings, coatings, trouserings, etc. The cutting department forms an important feature of the business, the proprietors giving the strictest attention to the supervision of this work, and, by their experienced direction and thoroughly practical knowledge of every detail of their profession, ensure absolute perfection in style, fit, material, and superior workmanship in every garment produced by the firm. Amongst the prominent specialities of the trade may be mentioned the supply, on the shortest notice, of every description of ships’ officers’ and engineers’ uniforms to order; promptitude in the execution of this class of work being of paramount importance, the firm may be relied upon to execute all orders of this description with the least possible delay.

    Spacious well-ventilated and sanitarily perfect workrooms are provided for the accommodation of the large staff of workmen employed, who are selected from the most experienced and competent hands in the trade, and, under the qualified superintendence of the principals, this branch of the business will favourably compare with any of the leading sartorial establishments in the city. An extensive and influential clientele has been secured by Messrs. Melville & Ross, who are patronised by many of the principal resident gentry in the district ; and these gentlemen have, by their courteous attention to the requirements of their numerous visitors, firmly established themselves in popular favour.

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