Green’s Dictionary of Slang

shred n.

[the shreds of cloth he discards]

a tailor.

[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Shred a Tailer.
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[US]Matsell Vocabulum.
[Aus]C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 73: Shred, a tailor.