Gentlemen’s Fashions The owner of Welch’s clothing store was among Charleston’s well-known entrepreneurs. With this ad he appealed to middle-class men visiting the city on business as well as local residents, who he assumed shared a common sense of proper dress. The ad declares that Danskin’s Pattern shirts received the “commendation of gentlemen in all parts of the United States.” Courtesy, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina