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Montague Burton

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Montague Burton. "The Tailor of Taste" Making good quality, made-to-measure suits for a week's wages, Burton created a mass market. This Hudson Road headquarters, begun in 1921, was by 1925, the largest clothing factory in the world, eventually employing 10,500 people.

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