Regency Fashion: Stultz

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By a Poet (1841)

(1842) Harper’s Novels

Stultz is a name often dropped by Reg Rom writers, as he was a premier tailor for men’s clothing during the Regency era (he died in France a wealthy Baron in 1833).  Getting his start as a German military tailor, Stultz’s shop was located at 10 Clifford Street, next door to an architect and very near the fashionable Savile Row.

Stultz was known for the quality of his tailoring. As The London and Paris Observer (1837) stated:

The most oft tale of Stultz is an exchange between him and Brummel, which explains his subsequent success and in many ways shows the ever industrious anticipation of ready-to-wear fashion:


The Cincinnati Miscellany, Or, Antiquities of the West, …(1846)

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