Originally, the company was mainly in charge of the finishing of haberdasher shop items for men's fashion of the time. |
Of all his roles, however, he's probably best known to the world at large as a haberdasher to celebrities. |
Despite his wealthier background, the president Mr Bush increasingly resembles is the haberdasher, Harry Truman another ordinary-seeming man with a peculiar knack for knowing what the American public wanted. |
But this inarticulate haberdasher from the heartland became the architect of the Marshall Plan, NATO and the Truman doctrine. |
Names of skilled artisans, however, are French: carpenter, draper, haberdasher, joiner, mason, painter, plumber, and tailor. |
In the immediate wake of Harry Truman's unlikely ascent to the presidency upon FDR's death in 1945, the former haberdasher was forced to grapple with enormous challenges. |