in Southwark rather than in anger

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With special complacence she contemplated her cousin Suzette, who was self-consciously but not very elatedly basking in the attentions of her fiancé, an earnest-looking young man who was superintendent of a People’s something-or-other on the south side of the river, and whose clothes Comus had described as having been made in Southwark rather than in anger.

What does "in Southwark rather than in anger" refer to?

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Southwark is a Borough of London where clothes were made. They would not have been very fashionable (as opposed to clothes "made in anger" which would have been made with a certain passion and style).

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In short, the clothes were dull in appearance.

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@Stacy2013,

I think it means they were messy and ill-made.
For this, the explanation could have been supposed (in jest) to be either
1. they were made by someone in an ill humour, or perhaps
2. they originated in an unfashionable district of the city.

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@McTag,

McTag wrote:

2. they originated in an unfashionable district of the city.

This is what we have been saying.

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in Southwark rather than in anger

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