Capper & Sons Of Gracechurch St
If any readers are considering investing in new outfits for spring, they might find some ideas here in these plates of over a century ago from Capper & Sons of 63 & 64 Gracechurch St, High Class Tailors, Riding Habit & Breeches Makers, & Juvenile Outfitters, courtesy of the Bishopsgate Insitute.
Single Breasted Chesterfield Overcoat – in soft black and blue llama
Cappers’ ‘Seymour’ Coat – made in new west of England waterproof coatings
Lounge Jacket Suit – in all the latest shades of Cashmere
Double Breasted Loung or Yachting Suit – in navy blue serge or cheviots and striped flannels
Morning Coat & Waistcoat – in black cheviot, llama and various cloths
Frock Coat & Waistcoat – in black Vicuna with silk facings
Double Breasted Chesterfield Overcoat – in Venetians, Beavers and Vicunas
Double Breasted Travelling Ulster – in waterproof but not airproof cloth
Dress Jacket Suit – in fine elastic twill or vicuna
Dress Suit – lined throughout in silk with silk facings
Norfolk Jacket & Knicker Suit – in west of England, Scotch & Irish tweeds
Boys’ Harrow Suit – in Cappers’ indestructible school suitings
Boys’ Eton Suit – made to measure in fine elastic twill
Cappers’ ‘Cottesmore’ Habit – with Norfolk plaits back and front
Cappers’ Quorn Habit – in fine Meltonian cloth for hard wear
Images Courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
You might like to read these other stories about commerce in Bishopsgate & Gracechurch St
Businesses in Bishopsgate 1892
At James Ince & Sons, Umbrella Makers
Charles Goss’ Bishopsgate Photographs
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Black Vicuña with silk facings !, mmmm that must have cost a pretty penny!
And a dress suit lined in silk
What fun love the drawings !
Fay
And the trees MUST stay !
I was intrigued to read the riding outfit was called capers quorn habit. I have always associated quorn with the mushroom protein. A search though on Google shows that there’s a village of Quorn in Leicestershire that was once associated with industrial knitting. So I guess that means it’s a knitted outfit. And I hadn’t realised that llama wool was available a century ago.!
Wonderful collection of ads, the clothes all look so smart. Valerie
Alas! Such a great style will never return and be seen again …
Love & Peace
ACHIM
I think the Quorn is the name of a hunt in Leicestershire.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives this definition of Quorn: “The name of a celebrated hunt that meets at Quorndon (formerly Quorn) and in the surrounding area of Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. Also more fully Quorn Hunt.” The Quorn habit would be an outfit appropriate for wearing at the meet.
In 2012, novelist Susanna Forrest wrote about riding sidesaddle in a corset. Twenty-eight women chose to ride sidesaddle at Quorn that year. I wonder how long the skirts were?
Yes,the Quorn is England’s oldest hunt and the hounds were kenneled there till 1904. Women did ride side-saddle to hunt so this is probably a very fashionable hunting outfit.
fascinated by the footwear !
You would not find toffs like that in the East End.
Give me the Gor-blimey Cockney any day
Gary