Have a Gay Old Time: While sick, the tailor periodically declares, "Alack!" which is an older version of the somewhat more familiar term "Alas!".Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: The first buck mouse to be seen wears only a fancy coat.Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Simpkin, when he goes out, wears a coat, pants, and boots.Dreaming of a White Christmas: The story takes place around Christmas, and it's snowing.Of course, this being a Beatrix Potter story, even the mice get in on the Costume Porn action. Costume Porn: The descriptions of the tailor's creations are gorgeous.The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: The tailor makes fancy clothing, but his own clothes are described as "threadbare".The mice also wear clothes and sew, but live like real mice. Civilized Animal: Simpkin is a mixed example he can only speak in meows, but he also wears clothes, walks on two legs, and runs errands for the tailor.
(However, he does feel bad about it later). Cats Are Mean: Simpkin doesn't give the tailor his twist, just because he's angry that the tailor set free the mice he planned on eating.Butt-Monkey: Simpkin gets snowed on, which he hates, and spends most of the story very hangry because the mice he wanted to eat got away and the tailor is too sick to feed him, then the mice taunt him with their songs.Arc Words: The tailor keeps mentioning that he has "no more twist!" in his despair at lacking the necessary thread for a suit, then later, the mice add it into their song.He runs into trouble when he falls too ill to work and his cat, Simpkin, hides the right kind of thread to finish the suit's button-holes, but fortunately he receives some unexpected help from the mice living in the wainscoting of his shop. It is about an impoverished tailor ( who lives in Gloucester) who is hired to make a suit for the Mayor's wedding. The Tailor of Gloucester is an early story by Beatrix Potter.
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