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JFK was also a member of the "Wearing Brooks Brothers at the End" Club...

JFK was wearing a grey Brooks Brothers suit, but IIRC from having read about 200 books about the JFK era and assassination, he was wearing a shirt from Turnbull and Asser.

Dunno what Garfield and McKinley were wearing when they were assassinated.

Ronald Reagan, for whatever reason, broke the streak of US Presidents being inaugurated in BB suits. So I assume when he was shot, he was not wearing BB.

BTW, for many years, BB had a "costume department" that custom-made lavish but hard-wearing costumes for Circus Performers, especially Ringling Brothers.

At least a few years ago, members of at least the US Air and Space Forces could custom-order military dress-suit uniforms from the BB factory in Massachusetts.

Somehow not the Army, Navy, or Marines, but back in history, BB would custom-make uniforms for those branches, and the BB uniforms were legendarily expensive, and regarded as a sign of personal wealth far beyond what the pay was, regardless the grade.


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