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looking for a haberdasher
Dec. 24th, 2007 12:35 pmI'm not sure what made me remember this, but...
Once (about 50 years ago) I was walking down the street in Beacon, NY with my mother doing some shopping. I needed to get a tie for some reason. (It could conceivably be the tie in this icon.) My mother asked a person passing by on the street something like -"do you know where we can find a haberdasher?" He replied with a huh? She said oh, where they sell ties. He opined that perhaps the hardware store down the street had ties, remarking that he'd seen some railroad ties at a lumber yard. She explained that a haberdasher sold clothing, and that Harry Truman had been a haberdasher. He then suggested the surplus store down the street. I don't remember if we were successful.
I think this may be the only context in my life I have used the word haberdasher in a sentence.
Haberdasher: In Britain and Australia, a dealer in dressmaking and sewing goods; in North America, a dealer in men’s clothing.
( Some background about the word )
Once (about 50 years ago) I was walking down the street in Beacon, NY with my mother doing some shopping. I needed to get a tie for some reason. (It could conceivably be the tie in this icon.) My mother asked a person passing by on the street something like -"do you know where we can find a haberdasher?" He replied with a huh? She said oh, where they sell ties. He opined that perhaps the hardware store down the street had ties, remarking that he'd seen some railroad ties at a lumber yard. She explained that a haberdasher sold clothing, and that Harry Truman had been a haberdasher. He then suggested the surplus store down the street. I don't remember if we were successful.
I think this may be the only context in my life I have used the word haberdasher in a sentence.
Haberdasher: In Britain and Australia, a dealer in dressmaking and sewing goods; in North America, a dealer in men’s clothing.
( Some background about the word )
