David N. Miller

DAVID N. MILLER, Hatter, Hosier, Glover, Shirt Maker, Military and Police Glove Contractor, 227 and 195—202, Cambridge Street, Glasgow.

    The rapid and successful advancement in public favour and support, manifested by the business of Mr. David N. Miller, may be regarded as the most positive proof of the excellent system of management under which it has been rendered a popular and leading centre of the City’s hosiery and outfitting trade. The business was established ten years ago at No. 227, Cambridge Street, and so greatly expanded beyond the space limits at that address that it was found necessary to acquire those additional premises at 195 and 201, Cambridge Street, the recent opening of which has afforded ample scope for the outlet of what has become a very progressive and always extending trade.

    The new premises possess the advantage of a splendid corner frontage, and the series of windows facing both Cambridge Street and West Graham Street area study in tasteful dressing and arrangement which many tradesmen might do well to imitate. Internally the same features of departmental setting and regularity predominate, and under all the most attractive conditions there are submitted to inspection assortments of hats and caps for gentlemen and boys which may at all times be accepted as representative of the ruling fashions and styles. The elements of completeness and profusion that are embodied in this department also characterise the whole other sections of the business, and the main points of variety, elegance, and fashionable taste are alike noted in hosiery, gloves, shirts, scarves, and in all the several branches of personal attire represented in the supplies of this emporium.

    Among the meritorious items submitted in these lines special attention may be directed to cambric handkerchiefs and also to the very numerous varieties in lambs-wool goods, the latter illustrating the best attainable examples of hygienic underclothing made in this country by a well-known representative of the industry. All are hand-knitted and are of a quality worthy of the highest recommendation from a health point of view.

    In ties Mr. Miller possesses a range of exquisite novelties, and as one of the most important traders in every class of gloves, he holds, it is believed, a stock that is not surpassed by any in this City either in respect of extensiveness or value. With a knowledge of the proper resources, gained by long dealing and experience in this trade, Mr. Miller has been enabled to place his glove business beyond any form of rivalry, and his suede and French kids, chevrette, Astrakhan, and other kinds of gloves are dainty specimens of handgear, bearing the warranty of manufacture in several of the best English and Continental glove centres. Mr. Miller’s recognition as a glover of considerable importance is more than adequately attested by the influential character of his connections, and in the capacity of military and police glove contractor he has supplied gloves to no fewer than twenty-two forces in Scotland.

    The work of shirt making is conducted with every regard for the exact tastes and requirements of gentlemen, and, as instancing the public acknowledgment of this fact, we need only quote the words of a writer in the Glasgow Evening News, from whose article — otherwise justly laudatory of Mr. Miller’s establishment — we make the following extract: “At the present season many will be glad to learn that the white dress shirts supplied at 227, Cambridge Street, are made to fit the figure perfectly, while qualities of ease and comfort are by no means overlooked. Much may be gathered from the dressing of Mr. Miller’s windows as to the variety of styles and qualities to be found within”.

    From every point of view, Mr. Miller’s establishment fully justifies its position in the support of a very general trade, adapting itself to all classes and all means by reason of the proprietor’s adherence to the approved principle of buying as well as selling for cash and his conferring the advantages of that system upon his patrons. He invariably tries to please, both as regards the value given and the attentive courtesy with which all transactions are carried out ; and being young, energetic, and enterprising, he imparts to the conduct of the business that necessary stimulus by which it has already been placed a degree beyond its contemporaries. The house occupies a sound and enviable position, and being in the heart of the busy thoroughfare which joins the West End to the City proper, it affords much promise of enhanced success in the future, so long as it is guided under the same active and persevering systems that have helped to cultivate its present reputation.

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