Bush* has a French tailor?

[displacedtexan]

CBS Sunday Morning just did a story on two tailors: repuke pResidents favor their French tailor (from Nixon to the current freak monkey);

Clinton favored the German tailor liberated from a concentration camp by Eisenhower.

Interesting. Wonder how the French tailor felt during the French boycott?

[Benhurst]

1. Bush always looks like a turd warmed-over. Vive la France!

:hurts:

[Kellanved]

2. yes

And the same shoemaker as Saddam : Vito Artioli.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. Considering the French tailor probably speaks better English than W

he probably just thinks the guy that fixes his suits is from Chicago or something.

All the anti-French propaganda doesn't apply to the ruling class. I'm sure they still have their French chefs, French au pairs, French wine and French couteur. It's only us little people that are supposed to hate the French unconditionally.

[Tinoire]

4. So he went from Syrian to Italian to French?

"There's no peacock in George Bush," says Clay Johnson, Bush's gubernatorial executive assistant.

"He does not want to be overdressed. He wants very simple clothes, but still dressing well," says Bush's tailor, Ghassan "Gus" Karim of Gassane in Austin, a Syrian-Lebanese immigrant who used to make Lyndon Johnson's clothes.

The governor is definitely a hero to his tailor — and not just because he gets $1,300 to $1,900 per suit. Karim goes to the governor's mansion to measure Bush (size 43), bringing books of about 200 samples of medium-weight wool.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e2326.htm

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Oxxford has dressed some of the most powerful and famous men in the world, in addition to the current president, his father and former Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Lyndon B. Johnson, mob boss Al Capone, Cary Grant and Edward, the Duke of Windsor. Hollywood stars Nicolas Cage in "The Family Man" and Jeff Bridges in "The Contender" were costumed in Oxxford suits.

When brothers Louis and Jacob Weinberg founded the company in 1916, they were determined to make the best suit. They used the finest fabrics and designed only simple, timeless shapes. This guiding principle ensures Oxxford continues to create topnotch garments for a price --$2,000 to $14,000 --that loyal customers are willing to pay. Oxxford produced 25,000 handmade garments and had $30 million in sales last year, according to Roger Parfitt, the company's chief operating officer.

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http://www.oxxfordclothes.com/suntimes.asp
On January 4th , 2001, a small team from Harold's and Oxxford Clothes flew to Austin for the first fitting. Attending from Oxxford was President and CEO, Crittenden Rawlings with Head Designer, Rocco Giovannangelo. The team then flew to Austin for the first fitting. They gathered at President Elect George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas for a second fitting last Saturday. Mr. Bush was so pleased with the fit of his tuxedo, suit, and topcoat and trousers that he immediately ordered six more garments.

http://www.oxxfordclothes.com/bush.asp

& always $4000 shirts from Norton & Sons


Sheesh... all that money and not a dime for speech therapy? You'd think that Laura, as a teacher, would have heard about "Hooked on Phonics". Well you know what they say, you can dress a pig in silk but you can't teach it how to sing!

[funky_bug]

5. I think you meant "Freedom Tailor"

Be vewy vewy careful... we're hunting wabbits.