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Originally Posted by Agemegos
Yes. People then used their visiting cards (if they had visiting cards) to establish their identities. Lots of personal effects had names, initials, or monograms engraved in or stamped on them, and well-made clothes had embroidered labels with the name of the customer, not the tailor. There is a scene in one of the early "Saint" stories in which Chief Inspector Teal looks inside Peter Quentin's jacket to check his claim that he is Simon Templar.
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Which rather suggests that this person will look a bit dubious, as none of his clothes have his name embroidered on them. Despite old jokes I don't suppose they will record his name as "Calvin Klein."