Kingstons shirts are worth it!
Upper O'Connell St. Dublin.
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| Summary: | Playing card (the 8 of clubs) with a trade card for Kingstons printed in green colour ink on verso. It features a cartoon of a man, wearing plaid trousers and slippers, who is seated on a chair in a garden, smoking a pipe, waiting for his shirt, collar and cuffs, which hang on the clothes line adjacent to him, to dry. Over the wall in the left background, the heads of three soldiers can just be seen, two of whom are wearing tam o'shanter hats on their head. Caitlín (Kathleen) Brugha (neé Kingston) originally established with the financial help of her brother an Irish leathergoods store on Nassau St. Dublin; subsequently the store moved to Upper O'Connell Street and became a famour men's outfitters [it specialised in menswear]. The manager she hired, Dermot Anderson, came up with the famous tagline "A Kingston shirt makes all the difference". |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Dublin] :
[s.n.],
[n.d., between ca. 1940 and 1955?].
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| Notes: | This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Physical description: 1 playing card, with a trade advertisement on verso : ill., 8.9 x 5.8 cm.. more |
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EPH A1588 |
Collection unavailable |
Ephemera |
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