Can this ongoing debate be held in another thread?

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In 1932 Brooks traveling to 46 cities.

/\  the only time I have ever seen everybody in a restaurant spontaneously stand up and give an ovation to a person randomly walking in the front door was in Beverly Hills one night in the '80s when Ahmet Ertegun showed up at a famous Japanese place ... place was full of record people obviously and they instantly recognized the guy and stood up and clapped en masse for him ... won't see anything exactly like that again .....

never forgot the tale (from George Frazier's classic 1960 Esquire article "The Art of Wearing Clothes") of Ahmet Ertegun taking his J. Press suits to the Algonquin to be reshaped:

  AHMET M. ERTEGUN — A jazz authority and president of prospering Atlantic Records, Ertegun was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1923 and was educated abroad and at St. John’s College in Annapolis. Dedicated to chic living, he has a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. He buys ready-made suits at J. Press (around $100 each and has them recut for around $50) by Martin Kalaydjian, the legendary valet of the Algonquin Hotel in New York.

idk. i understand from a former yale provost originally from that region that historically the cincinnati yale alumni have been among the most active (collectively) in the country outside new york. must've been all the soap.

Just bumping this thread, because along with the surf and the nasa one's, it might just be my favourite!

Beebs, thanks for posting this article about the glory that was Brooks Brothers, I enjoyed it and will always be thankful that they were able to get me my pith helmet in time lo those many years ago, Class Day would have been a flop without them

also, thank you eBay for keeping Brooks Brothers alive for me

although I did buy a couple of pairs of boxer briefs from the Bros a couple of months ago so there's that

actually going to call them later in the day with a country of origin question about some items of sleepwear, having been motivated by this article

one of my best friends is a Lawrenceville guy, he won't touch the stuff, but his brother, also a friend of mine, wears it with ease ....

I do miss the days of made in the USA and loose, traditional fit clothes from Brooks, I cannot use any slimmed-down stuff from them and in light of the burgeoning alliance between Russia and China I'm even less inclined than I was before to accept Chinese-made goods from anybody

and the omissions by J. Press of country of origin information negatively affects the likelihood of my buying from them, whereas good old O'Connell's doesn't try to hide the info because their clothing is nearly all from the USA, England, Scotland, and sometimes from Canada, Ireland, and Italy, which keeps me interested