Haberdashery

I run against Silver himself, all encompassed up in a spacious kind of haberdashery, leaning against a hotel and rubbing the half-moons on his nails with a silk handkerchief. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

She had likewise an assortment of all kind of haberdashery wares; as hats, red caps, knit of ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

We were four at setting out from Paddington: but one of the servants was dispatched to prepossess an old servant of Sir Hargrave’s mother, at Colne-brook, who keeps there a kind of haberdashery shop; and where he proposed to get some refreshment for the lady, if he could make her take any. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Also, there’s a kind of haberdashery here in Washington-on-theBrazos. ❋ Larry McMurtry (2004)

Hawass wears brushed jeans, a pressed denim shirt, and his signature Indiana Jones hat, one he tells me is about to be licensed under his brand by a Chicago haberdashery. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

Whenever I visit my friends' pages, Facebook suggests that if I like Sarah, I will really enjoy the funky haberdashery of ModCloth.com. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Taavo Somer Six years after opening his downtown eatery Freemans, restaurateur and arbiter of cool Taavo Somer is taking the zeitgeist back by storm with the first look book for his men's haberdashery shop, Freemans Sporting Club. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The best of origin theories notwithstanding, the erectors likely had little wood at their disposal, and limited manpower; but the statue stands, proud in his haberdashery, lips peculiarly pursed, eyes blind, mouth in solemn silence, yet somehow alive in the deadness of stone. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

I ran a hot iron quickly over the front of a previously worn shirt, saddened at the thought of the jolly staff at my local dry cleaner who will suffer because of my thrifty initiative and tolerance for rumpled, mildly aromatic haberdashery. ❋ Rick Moranis (2012)

The secrets of Jughead's haberdashery -- revealed! ❋ Unknown (2009)

I say, preparing to make a few subtle corrections to the fellow's haberdashery. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Michael Conway Staff bikes fill Rapha's dispatch room It was his obsession with cycling and his inability to find the right kit that led Mottram to launch Rapha in 2004 with Luke Scheybeler above a haberdashery store in Camden Town. ❋ Tina Gaudoin (2011)

It was a deep and painful slump a young Army veteran, Harry S. Truman, lost his Kansas City haberdashery to bankruptcy, with the wholesale price index dropping by 37% and the measured rate of unemployment tripling to 12%. ❋ James Grant (2011)

Open Mon 2.30pm-7.30pm, Tue-Sat, 11.30pm-7.30pm. frenchtrotters.frThe haberdashery department of Marché St Pierre in Montmartre is a 60-year-old institution and home to blousey but chic French ladies with spectacles on chains and wielding lethal-looking scissors to slice through silks, wools, cottons and chiffons. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Just go to the market, or a haberdashery-store, buy some pretty buttons, and replace them. ❋ Nathreee (2010)

The clerk told me I really need a black fedora to go with the whole ensemble, but alas, there appears to be no suitable haberdashery in this whole state. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The 1,500-square-meter former wallpaper factory is one of the finest examples of wealth-shame décor, with its rough bits of peeling plaster, cement floors and exposed beams housing a café selling used books, a florist, and fashion, home, cycling, children, fragrance and haberdashery sections. ❋ Helen Kirwan-Taylor (2011)