He sold his creations to a carriage-trade clientele under the name William J. "My family would have been too embarrassed," he recalled.
Three times a week, Ruben's eighty-year-old father, Vitellio, a retired tailor who once had a carriage-trade clientele in Old Havana, comes in from New Jersey to help.
Colonial never regained its prewar status as a major urban style, although present-day examples - from reverent neo-Georgian mansions to puckish caricature silhouettes - at the museum confirm the style's record as the longest-running revival in town, albeit for a carriage-trade clientele.
One furniture maker, who started out in the retail business and now has a trade-only clientele, described a ruse in which he said he refused to participate.
An Israeli report states that the Old City of Jerusalem has become a center of illegal drug trade, with a clientele dominat ed by American and European visitors.
He also confers daily with Morgan Stanley's top brass, its sales and trading staff and its institutional clientele.
The open shelves around the dining room, stacked with surplus tableware, suggest Williams-Sonoma, and the clientele is more trading pit than mosh pit.
Overwhelmingly, the companies and trade associations that dominate top-dollar lobbyists' clientele are seeking to protect their own legislated competitive advantages, including special tax breaks, favorable procurement rules and government regulations that prevent new challengers from entering the marketplace.
A Manchester hair salon has a unique global clientele catering for a burgeoning trade in hair tourism thanks to its exposure on social media.
Not only did they reject "self-identifying" as gay, but even gay hustlers knew they could not identify as such without turning off their gay clientele, who far preferred straight trade.
They apply what many describe as an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture and fashion history to the vintage trade, unearthing rare pieces for an even more rarefied clientele.
