From today's Chicago Sun-Times....
Men electing the Obama suit by Hartmarx
CHICAGO'S HARTMAX | Wool two-button model retails for $1,500
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October 22, 2008
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SANDRA GUY Business Reporter
sguy@suntimes.com
<!-- Article's First Paragraph --> <!-- BlogBurst ContentStart --> Michelle Obama, move aside as the fashion plate.
Shoppers have started asking for the Obama suit -- the navy blue, worsted-wool, two-button suit that Chicago's Hartmarx tailored just for Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama.
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Barack Obama has bought five more Hart Schaffner Marx suits.
(Courtesy/AP)
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<!-- BlogBurst ContentStart --> Even Hartmarx CEO Homi Patel bought four of them.
The Hart Schaffner Marx suits are sold at retail as the Gold Trumpeter collection. In department stores, they go for $1,500 apiece.
Now, Obama has bought two more of the suits in blue and three in gray -- all the same silhouette and material -- single-breasted, 97 percent worsted wool and 3 percent cashmere. The pleated pants have an inch-and-a-quarter cuffs.
Hartmarx -- at 121 years old the largest suitmaker in the United States -- dismantled its network of 600 unprofitable retail stores a decade ago but has started opening stores in major cities as a marketing device. Its latest is a Hickey Freeman store set to open Saturday at 114 E. Oak St. in Chicago.
A Hart Schaffner Marx boutique could open in downtown Chicago by next year.
Uh-oh Obama is buying suits from Marx, he must be some commie. :missingte