The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-11-25
Ehe .0la. qothes Karket in london.


by hour are seductively drained, eithe
by floral exchange, attractive advertise
laents, or the downright Fostering Q
"Old keys" eliminate in the gres
old clothes mart in Houndsditch, wher
Hebrews most do congregate. Tn
clothes that are intended to remain il
this country have to be tutoTed ant
transformed. The "clobberer," tn
'reviver,' and the TRANSLATOR" la,
hands upon them. The duty Of tn
'clobberer" is TO patch, to sew up an'
20 restore IS far as possible, the gar
ments to their pristine appearance
black cloth garments pass into tn
hands Of the ''revivers, who rejuVe
nate seedy black coats, and, for the mo
ment, make them look as good as new
The ''translators duty is of a highe
order; his Office is to transform one
garment into another-the skirts OF {
cast-off coat, being the least worn par
of the garment, make capital waist
coats and tunics for children, DC. Hati
are revived in still more wonderful
manner; they are cut down to take oul
the grease marks, refined, and appear
in the shop like new ones. The streets
surrounding the old clothes market are
full of shops where those "clobberred
and revived goods are exposed for
sale, and really stranger to the trade
would not know but what they were
new goods.
THE PURCHASERS.
There is department of the market
also dedicated to old clothes, male and
female, cIobbered"' and revived. 1t Is
touching sight to see the class OF per
Sous who frequent the mems market,
and turn over the seedy black garments
that are doing their best to put on a
good appearance-the toil-worn clerks,
who for some social reason are expected
to apparel themselves in black, and the
equally careworn members OF the elerl-
cal profession, chiefly curates whose
meagre stipends do not permit OF the
extrayagance of new suits OF clothes
The ladies market is vast wardrobe
of silk dresses, but if we are to believe
the salesWomeD, the matrons of Eng
land are more thrifty than we give them
credit for Servants come here TO
purchase, sir No, indeed, sir; ladies
worth hundreds Of pounds, was the re
ply we got to our inquiries as to the
class Of purchasers.
EXPORTED MATERIALS.
Black cloth clothes that are too far
gone to be "elobbered" and revived
are always sent abroad to be cut up to
make caps. France takes the best Of
these old clothes for this purpose. The
Innings are stripped out, and in this
condition they are admitted duty free
as old rags Russia and Poland, where
caps seem to be universally worn by the
working population, are content with
still more threadbare garments to be
cut up for this purpose. The great
bulk Of our cast off clothes of all kinds,
however, find their way to two mark
ets-Ireland and Holland. The old
clothes bags may, in fact, be said to be
emptied out in the land of Erin, as far
as the ordinary order of clothes go,
while to Holland only special articles
of apparel are exported Singularly
enough, the destination of the red
snnies of the whole British infantry is
the chests Of the sturdy Dutchman
There seems to be some popular belief
or superstition in that water-logged
country that red cloth affords the best
protection against rheumatism, conse-
0uently these red jackets all find their
way to the land of dykes. The sleeves
are cut of, and they are made to button
in double breasted fashion; thus re-
modelled, they are worn next to the skin
like a flannel waistcoat by all careful
Dutchmen among the laboring classes.
fhe Irish chiefly favor cOrdurOys, and
we suspect the WORKOUT legs of British
pantaloons of this material are cut of
and converted into breeches for Pat
Where he gets those wonderful swallow
tailed coats with brass buttons is a
puzzle 10 all the dealers; it is very GER
tain they do not come from this side OF
the Channel, and it is equally clear they
are remnants of costume two genera
tons back.
UNIFORMS AND LIvERIEs
Our readers will perhaps have noticed
the special avidity the dealers in old
clothes evince for all kinds OF regimen
tails, full dress liveries, volunteers uni
forms, beadles coats, DC. Anything
specially splendid in this line is marked
by the collectors es sportsman marks
any rare and brilliantly plumaged
bird, and ultimately it is sure to be
bagged by them One of the largest
dealers in London in these snowy dress
es once said to us, seeing a guardsman
going along the street. A thousand to
one that coat comes into my hands
Really the inevitability these appears
TO be about the destination of these re
cimentals, if known 10 their wearers,
should make them very uncomfortable
The dealers would, If they could, strip
them off their backs just as an ell-wo-
man skins an eel
A Lord Mayors footmGh's full drees
livery is viewed by these gentry with
wolfish eyes. These are the great
prizes OF the profession, and their bar
barrie sp,endors are destined for special
market-the south coast of Africa,
where nature puts on her most gorgeous
apparel, and the great ones of the land
are determined to have something to
match. Travellers often tell US of the
the marvellous appearance of the chiefs
of these parts when in full multi but
we scarcely expected to find our old
clothes-dealers the regular eostuaiers of
these sable dignitaries, transmitting
regimentals, laced liveries, and cooked
hats, as regularly to them as London
tailor sends his clothes to his country
customers. And Mumbo Jumbo will
not be put off with inferior articles; the
SLIGHTEST blemish in color or inf, GRITTY
in cloth is instantly detected aud re-
iected by these semi~savages, hence the
greatest care is necessary in catering
for their wants. IL is just possible that
the Lord Mayors for these last dozen
years would be able to recognize their
own splendid liveries on the backs of
a council Of these potentates, if they
could ever be got together for any pur
pose whatever We ourselves saw an
assortment of well-preserved liveries
of the heir to the proudest throne in
the world just being packed for expor-
tation to the grand destination of all
fine hveries we have just mentioned
1t should be some solace to the parish
beadle that his clothes, instead
of descending in the social scale like
those Of ordinary civilians, is destined
to flame upon the back of some auto> /
crat vVba holds the lives of thousands I