A real gem.  I don't think there's another store quite like them in America.  Their private label Lanella plaid flannel shirts are among my favorites.

I am not a patron but I know Alan Flusser featured an incredible number of Herzfeld shirts in his first elegant book. The moment my ship comes in............
     Actually I will check them out this Christmas season. I'm sure I will find something to buy.

Uh oh. sounding a bit ugly here. I better hurry down to the city to check them out. I only thought to give a boost to a small family store.

I am going to recall a different world. When I grew up there were far fewer stores. Most of the stores were family owned. There weren't any national chains. Undercutting prices was considered a bit immoral. The great story about this is John Ohara's: The Hardware Man. For those who don't want to bother, I offer a little taste of the morality of a very different world:
"How much for the goodwill?" said Lou Mauser
"A million dollars cash. Oh, I know it isn't worth it. Mauser, but I wouldn't sell it to you for any less. In other words, it isn't for sale to you. A week from Saturday night at nine o'clock, this store goes out of business forever. But no part of it belongs to you...........When this store goes out of business a lot of people are going to miss it. Not because it was a store. YOU had a store. But we had something better. We never had to give away footrules to schoolchildren, or undercut our competitors, and before we decided to do them we decided to close up shop. But first we gave some of the people something to remember. Our kind of store, not yours, Mauser."
......"No wonder you're going out of business. You should have been a preacher".
    "I thought about it", said Tom Easterly"But I didn't have the call".
     Once there was a world where integrity demanded that you not cut a price to drive your neighbor out of business. I remember that world from a long time ago. A different world. A different integrity.

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I know. I know. I have no answers. But I grew up in the time when the stores were owned by the prosperous people in town. I think the incomes were all a bit closer. And if you made your money from the local economy you had to have some concern for the workers. But I have no answers. I do remember the time when all of the stores were local.

I was listening to Amity Schlaes on Bloomberg radio at some point today and she conceded: "That is the argument my father makes: we need an industrial capacity so we can defend ourselves. That is a pretty good argument!" Nice girl. Very pretty. Needs to learn something about the Depression though.

I think it's hard to go wrong with Ira showing you around.  Ira also showed me some stuff in the back in the jacket / suits area that were marked down.  A nice orange husky jacket that I should have snagged was marked down considerably.  I live in the hood and I'm afraid they're not gonna make it.  Another one bites the dust while Daffys chuggs along with some of the biggest morons for employees I've ever seen.

Interesting. I need to get to Cenci when they have a sale. I meant to post this on another thread but I always assumed that the Brooks sized socks, made in England, occasionally on sale, were made by Pantharella. Plain, not exciting. But the quality is obvious. These are luxe purchases.

The answers to your questions are: No I did not claim to be 42 in whatever post you refer to. You are mistaken.
    No. you have completely misinterpreted the story. You insist on interpreting the world through the prism of your prejudice. The story had nothing to do with ethnicity. It had to do with capitalism and morality.
     Horace, you need to move beyond your obsession with me. And your obsession with the Irish.

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