Barack is my heart-throb
Posted January 31, 2009 by
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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.”
