Though so much of the clothing of the Virginia planters was made in England, there was certain work done by home tailors; such work as repairs, alterations, making children’s common clothing, and the like, also the clothing of upper servants. Often the tailor himself was a bond-servant. Thus, Luke Mathews, a tailor from Hereford, England, was bound to Thomas Landon for a term of two years from the day he landed. He was to have sixpence a day while working for the Landon family, but when working for other persons half of whatever he earned. In the Lancaster County records is a tailor’s account (one Noah Rogers) from the year 1690 to 1709; it was paid, of course, in tobacco. We may set the tobacco as worth about twopence a pound. It will be thus seen from the following items that prices in Virginia were higher than in New England:— Pounds For making seven womens’ Jacketts 70 For making a Coat for y’r Wife 60 For altering a Plush Britches 20 For Y’r Wife &; Daughturs Jackett 30 For y’r Britches 20 Coat 40 Y’r Boys Jacketts 20 Y’r Sons britches 25 Y’r Eldest Sons Ticking Suite 60 To making I Dimity Waistcoat, Serge suite 2 Cotton Waistcoats and y’r Dimity Coat 185 For a pr of buff Gloves 100 For I Neck Cloth 12 A pr of Stockings 120 A pr Callimmaneo britches 60 Another bill of the year 1643 reads:— Pounds To making a suit with buttons to it 80 1 ell canvas 30 for dimothy linings 30 for buttons &; silke 50 for points 50 for taffeta 58 for belly pieces 40 for hooks &; eies 10 for ribbonin for pockets 20 for stiffinin for a collar 10 —- Sum 378 The extraordinary prices of one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco for making a pair of stockings, and one hundred for a pair of gloves, when making a coat was but forty, must remain a seventeenth-century puzzle. This coat was probably a petticoat. It is curious, too, to find a tailor making gloves and stockings at any price. I think both buff gloves and stockings were of leather. Perhaps he charged thus broadly because it was “not in his line.” Work in leather was always well paid. We find tailors making leather breeches and leather drawers; the latter could not be the garments thus named to-day. Tailors became prosperous and well-to-do, perhaps because they worked in winter when other Virginia tradesfolk were idle; and they acquired large tracts of land.