He served as an apprentice tailor to the Household Cavalry and adapted three characteristics of their military uniform into: wide shoulders, roomy armholes, and narrow waists.
If one may be pardoned for introducing the personal note, I have a friend who is rich enough to get his clothes made by Scholte, and I have on various occasions seen his dress coat.
The looser, draped cut was in contrast to the tighter, more restrictive clothing of the Victorian era, and proved extremely influential in 20th-century men's fashion.
[5] Several of the Duke of Windsor's jackets made by Scholte are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of New York's Costume Institute.
Scholte died in 1948 at Holloway Sanatorium (that year converted into an NHS hospital) in Virginia Water, Surrey.