 The Redferns are credited with making tailored clothing chic for women.Previously resigned to utilitarian wear, finely tailored dresses and suits, as introduced by Redfern, quickly became a craze among sporting aristocrats on holiday at Cowes, spreading soon to Paris.In the 1870s the Redfern yachting suit or dress was swiftly becoming the most recognizably English mode of fashionable apparel.