"no strings attached"
Orin Hargraves
orinkh at CARR.ORG
Wed Apr 20 11:08:35 UTC 2005
And you did notice, didn't you, that the posting of this material on the
tailor's website was April 1st?
Orin Hargraves
>>I surely doubt it.
>
>Like I said, "purported".
>
>Probably the most that one can take from the claim is that tailors =
>believe this is the origin of the phrase. From reading the blog in =
>question, it is apparent that there is much "handed down" in the trade =
>(at least at the Saville Row level), and folk etymology is part of what =
>is handed down, even if wrong.
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