When the Tailor finishes his work for the day, he leaves twelve pieces of cloth for the coat, four pieces of cloth for the waistcoat, pocket flaps, buttons, fine yellow taffeta for the coat's lining, and a cherry-colored twist (a strong thread used by tailors) for the waistcoat's button holes on the table. He measures the silk and trims it into shape with his shears and the table becomes filled with cherry-colored snippets. The Tailor works diligently and talks to himself while he works. The coat is made of cherry-colored corded silk embroidered with pansies and roses and a cream-colored satin waistcoat trimmed with gauze and green worsted chenille. One cold day near Christmastime, the Tailor starts making a coat for the Mayor of Gloucester to wear for his wedding on noon on Christmas Day. He hardly wastes any fabric, leaving only very small snippets of cloth that are too small to use for anything except as waistcoats for Mice. The Tailor is a little old man who wear glasses, has old crooked fingers, and wears a suit of thread-bare clothes because he is very, very poor.
The Tailor sits in the window of a little Shop in Westgate Street in the town of Gloucester every day from early morning until dark, sewing fine clothes for the town's residents. The Tailor of Gloucester was written by Beatrix Potter and first published in 1903.
"In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets-when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta-there lived a tailor in Gloucester."
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