Canberra menswear pioneer Sam Catanzariti who dressed prime ministers and countless other dignitaries made his first suit aged just 13.
A suit he made for then prime minister Gough Whitlam is even in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
Early in his career in Canberra, he even made suits for the workers of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, filling his EH Holden with rolls of fabric and, at times, braving the slippery, snow-covered roads to travel back and forth doing fittings for them.
