"ToLo" > wrote in message
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> Michael said on 10/20/2004 10:01 AM:
> > "Wally Bedford" > wrote in message >
> >
> >>"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit."
> >>Sir Frederick G. Banting
> >
> >
> > Sorry Wally and Sir Freddie,
> >
> > But I have at least one a week is a Hickey Freeman suit. Blasted
> > comfortable suits I might add.
> >
> >
> Didn't know they still made them!! Grew up a couple of blocks from
> their original plant. At one time, there were hundreds of clothing
> manufacturers there, almost all are gone. As late as 1960s, they were
> producing over 15,000,000 suits a year in that area of Rochester, NY.
> Michaels, Stern, Bonds, Hickey Freeman, Hickoks....

Hart, Schaffner & Marx bought them out in the sixties. They are still made
but with the drop in demand and the added overhead the price has gotten a
little out of hand. I buy mine either on sale or with the labels cut out at
a little place on 43rd St in NY. They make about the best off the rack suit
available, IMHO.