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Home > Window on Washington > Archives > 2006 > August > 24 > Entry
The president doesn’t like my suit, Part Deux
OK, so we now know that President Bush does not like seersucker suits (see “The president doesn’t like my suit”).
But we also now know that other presidents were fans of Haspel seersucker suits, such as the one that drew a presidential thumbs-down this week.
“For decades Haspel was a choice clothier for celebrities such as Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable and Cary Grant,” Haspel reports on its website. “Presidents such as Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and FDR found that Haspel’s poplins, seersuckers and pincores were correct for any occasion.”
After he left the White House, Truman expressed his appreciation for the suits in a letter to Joseph Haspel, then the company’s president. Click on the image below for a larger version.
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