Tailors in Brittany

Postcards on the different regional way of being dressed are very common. But the postcards teaches also how the dress and costumes were made by the local tailors. Some of them had a shop, but others were traveling from one farm to the other to find some work.

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dress making near Guéméné sur Scorff
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tailors working in a farm
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le Quemener's shop: fitting of a new dress
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the old tailor from Kerléo (Finistère)

Among all tailors shown on postcards, the one from Coray is more famous. A complete series was edited were he is shown working.

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Le Quemener,
 the old tailor from Coray
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le Quemener: 
cutting of the vest
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let's take first a good pinch 
of snuff to see better

 

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27 July 2001