[lbo-talk] Jobs

Mark Bennett bennett.mab at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 11:31:29 PDT 2011


Except that there are damn few real tailors left in the US, and most of them quite elderly. That trade will soon be extinct.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:50 AM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
> Yes and no. It takes a lot of skilled labor to produce a beautiful men's
> suit, and it shows. It's not just snob appeal.
>
> ----------
> True. Very true. On the other hand, that's one reason why men's fashion
> changes far more slowly than women's fashion. You get three suits and you
> use them for the next twenty years.
>
> By the by. It is almost the same price to get a tailored suit as it is to
> go to Bloomies and get a high end one.
>
> Joanna
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