George Saunders - From a Back to Backs soundpoint transcript.
"There was an advertisement for a tailor in the city of Birmingham and I decided to write an application for the job and a letter came back for me saying I am just the man they are looking for, please come for an interview. I got myself nicely dressed up with a tie and everything like that and I went in to see the man. The man looked at me and said the vacancy is gone. I was dumbstruck and couldn’t believe was I was hearing. He said, “I told you the job is gone, get out.
So I walked away but after I found myself a job at a biscuit factory by the name of J Hughes in Small Heath. One girl came up to me and asked me “if my colour under my white overall was the same as my arm and face.” I said to her jokingly “of course, its green underneath.” But as things went on, we began to improve and finally I started to work on my own and then we moved to Hurst Street. From 1974- 2001, we were very busy. We didn’t advertise just one person tells the other and we just built up like that. I had people coming to me to make suits from London. In the latter years we made clothes for the Queens guard and, we had a very big order from Libya.
If you are having something made for you it looks entirely different from something you buy from the shop. You don’t have to look twice as that person to know the thing is well- made"
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