Brook brothers

My thirty seven years while living in New York City, has enable me to meet numerous movies stars and those of musical fame. It was nothing to run into a famous person on the streets, in a club, and even at a party. So not being bigheaded I won’t name them all. But it was one occasion that I was walking up Lexington Avenue, and behold it was Walter Pidgeon the famous movie actor of the 1940s and later movies, who was approaching me. Why I remember that moment was the way that he was dressed in the attire of the day, as I was associated with British apparel coming out of England the prototype that of Brook Brother's. As I approached Mr. Pidgeon I noted that he was wearing similar apparel as I was. I can still envision his complete dress that day in the 1960s as it was a mirroring of what I was wearing that particular day. He had on a Brook Brother’s hat which is somewhat larger than the ordinary dress hats, he also had on a waist-suppressed suit, he had on cap-toe shoes, and his shirt was a rolled buttondown, his tie was in a print style of an almost English monogram wrapped around in one single flip knot, and not that of a full or half Winsor knot, his color combination was beige as the shoes were almost the color of mahogany. I felt as if I was trying to be a copycat at that moment. But as our eyes came in contact I saw approval being conveyed by him with a smile, a gesture I still can commit to memory. So preparing to be a traditional dresser it takes inner elegant from those around you like my friend my Brother Benny Leroy Gillead and the entire fellows in our former social club called the Swingers of the era the 1960s. And during those days it was imperative to have a great wrist watch to bring out Brook Brothers objective, from your belt, the pin through your shirt collar, a white handkerchief folded just right, and the stained shoes which appeared as a spit shine but wasn’t, the shine were accented on the front-sides-back, and on some wintery occasion a scarf was included in our dress, oh yes we wore garters to hold our socks in place, as women could smell the aroma of Aramis Cologne being dispense around the room as a foramen to attract women. I wish the men of today were so concern as to their objective motive that they adamant about distributing ways to entice the appetites of modern day women. I can see a few who are following in our footstep today but not that many. So when I did see a neat male I can appreciate his attempts to carry on a tradition long lost. As for me I have move somewhat away from Brook Brother's to that of Joseph A Banks and Hugo Boss but Brook Brother’s is still in my blood as a dress mentoring factor even today.