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Refusal to pay the bills of one's tailor was famously almost a point of honour among English gentlemen in past centuries, and Winston Churchill was no exception, newly released archives show.
Britain's World War II leader had racked up a bill of 197 pounds by 1937, around 12,000 pounds ($18,000) at today's prices, with Savile Row tailor Henry Poole and Co. before he was finally asked to pay up.
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