I have not paid enough attention to Barack Obama’s outfits. Why is this? Well, I am so knocked out by his policies and his looks that I almost dare not write about him! It’s true -I have a major crush on the new president. I think no president has caused this much excitement since the election of JFK in 1961. Today I looked at the suppliers of his suits – it is the Chicago suit maker, Hartmarx. They were booked to make a tuxedo, topcoat and suit for the inauguration.
The black Hart Schaffner Marx suit is sold at Nordstrom department stores for $895. In certain conditions, under bathroom lighting for example, it looks light blue.
Hartmarx has tailored two more suits for Obama, but he wore only one of his Hart Schaffner Marx suits on Inauguration Day.
Obama had previously bought six Hart Schaffner Marx suits. Those suits retail under the Gold Trumpeter collection for $1,500 apiece. The suits are single-breasted, 97 percent worsted wool and 3 percent cashmere.
The 121-year-old Hartmarx, maker of menswear labels Hickey Freeman and Hart Schaffner Marx, is the largest U.S.-based menswear maker and one of the few, if not the only, men’s topcoat manufacturers in North America.
“We are thrilled at the opportunity to create a wardrobe for someone as dynamic as President-elect Obama and to participate, in however small way, in our nation’s civic activities,” said Brett Schenck, president of Hart Schaffner Marx. “Equally positive is that we are being embraced as an American, union-made manufacturer that prides itself on quality, value and fit.”
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