English: Identifier: industriesofdubl00lond

Title: The Industries of Dublin. Historical, statistical, biographical. An account of the leading business men, commercial interests, wealth and growth Year: 1887 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: Industries Publisher: London : S. Blackett Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: it is obviously iinimssible to satisfy thefail pirchascrs with objects of purely Irish manufacture, and hence a mostimportant branch of the dressmaking trade is carried over to the profit ofour Continental neighbours. To meet this difficuliy, the firm of Brown,Thomas, & Co. put their wise heads toge her and concocted a schemewhich, .as we have remarked, does the highest ere lit to their inventiveginius. The firm, like all large houses, liave buyers con^tanlly in theParisian .and German markets, whose business it is to jnirchise for theirhouse the very latest novelties, styles, and fashions. Instead cf sellingtho*e dresses, Messrs. Brown, Thomas, & Co. hand them over to an expe-rienced staff of workwomen, who copy the style, cut, etc., to the letter,using, however, Irish manufactured materials where possible, and producingan article of dress fully equal to its Parisian model in style and make. Thisstep, which practically takes the wind out of the sails of the foreigner, has one

Text Appearing After Image: iiillufiui.il citizens of every town in the United .States, from New Vurk toSan Francisco, recognise as unsurpassed the excellent goods of ihis firmsexported to the Great Republic of the West. The many foreign lands inwhich they have placed their w.ares are too numerous to mention, but onthe extent covered by their commercial conquests, as on the ilominions ofthe British empire, the sun never sets. Taking all for all, the house ofBrown, Thomas. & Co. is perhaps one of the best, if not, imleed, the best,of the most distinctly representative houses in Ireland ; and so eminentlyis the fact established that scarcely any foreigner visiting the Irish metro-polis who wishes to bring away some memento of his visit—generally aspecimen of Irish work at its best—thinks of leaving the city without payingthe celebrated and old-established house in Grafton Street a visit. We wishwe were not, owing to the limited sp:ice at our disposal inseparable from awork of this description, prevented fr

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