ALAN FLUSSER MEN'S PURE COTTON CORDUROY LUXURY BLAZER W/PAISLEY LININGPURE COTTONPAISLEY INTERIORWINTER, SPRING, & FALL ENJOYMENTEXCEPTIONAL TAILORINGBY ALAN FLUSSERMy appearance has always been one of my major preoccupations and priorities. I’m sure that many men who work in menswear started with similarly strong sentiments about how they wanted to look and dress. Born to a father who loved clothes and was an unabashed devotee of the Brooks Brothers/Fred Astaire dressing canon, by the time I was seventeen I had figured out a little menswear business that allowed me get my clothes made by a local tailor. By twenty-eight, gainfully employed as a sportswear designer for Pierre Cardin, I was having my clothes custom-made in London and Paris. It was 1976 and I was traveling to Europe four times a year, with the Continent’s most storied ateliers and tailors no further than a left out of my hotel. To my great fortune, many establishments still employed a few holdovers from menswear’s golden days, when the clothing exploits of the Duke of Windsor were daily news. It was a time still driven by fashions handed down from the upper classes to the great unwashed. Each establishment’s cadre of old boys was outfitted in their long-in-the-tooth bespoke, ever-ready to regale you with the sartorial histories of Hollywood’s high priests of male elegance: Menjou, Gable, Cooper, Grant, Astaire, and so many others.
