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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 4554367, member: 56&quot;]Also known as Count Bruhl&#039;s Tailor.&nbsp; Count Bruhl was the ultimate 18th C dandy.&nbsp; He is said to have once purchased, at a single sitting, 100 embroidered silk suits with extra pants, matching hats, canes and snuff boxes.&nbsp; Peter the Great once commented of him something to the effect of &#039;such a large hat to cover such a small brain&#039;.&nbsp; A glittering personality within his circle, and oblivious to those without. </p><p><br /></p><p>He had run up an enormous bill at his tailor&#039;s, and the tailor offered to settle the bill if Count Bruhl would allow him to attend just one of Bruhl&#039;s aristocratic soirees.&nbsp; Bruhl agreed, commissioned this figure from Meissen, and displayed it at one of his dinners, maintaining that the porcelain tailor on the goat fulfilled the agreement.&nbsp; The aristocracy being what the aristocracy was, he got away with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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