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Brooks Brothers | A Button-Down Bankruptcy
Slate Business
English - October 02, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutesManagement Business News Business News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For more than a century, Brooks Brothers defined fashion for a certain kind of east coast, American elite. It’s been the clothier to nearly every US president. So how did its madras start to bleed so badly?
Podcast production by Jess Miller, with help from Madeline Ducharme, Hannah Klein, and Cleo Levin.
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For more than a century, Brooks Brothers defined fashion for a certain kind of east coast, American elite. It’s been the clothier to nearly every US president. So how did its madras start to bleed so badly?
Podcast production by Jess Miller, with help from Madeline Ducharme, Hannah Klein, and Cleo Levin.
Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Dear Prudence and Slow Burn. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices