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Description: | The man in the centre of this photograph is Sam Prager, proprietor of Prager's Valet Service. Sam was the son of Morris Prager, who came to London from Russia and worked as a gents' bespoke tailor, making up coats and jackets for Savile Row tailors. The family lived in Saville Street. Sam helped his father from the age of 9, and later became a "fixer" - the person who cut out pockets, cuffs and collars and assembled the garment, before passing it on to be stitched by the machinist. He eventually became a factory manager for Hector Powe in Dalston, supervising over 600 girls. When he married in 1949, he and his wife set up their own shop in the West End, for tailoring suits, shirts and slacks, alterations and repairs, dry cleaning and dyeing. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Jewish Museum, London | Rights holder: | Copyright holder unknown. | Subjects: | work | Temporal: | 1960 | Source: | Jewish Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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