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PARIS Assembled by hand from three pieces of fabric, Charvet's tie ($195) is the choice of sartorialists...
...Charvet, 28 Place Vendôme (33-1-42-60-30-70). There is nothing better than shopping for men's ties, shirts and cashmere here. The colors are amazing and, by the way, so are the socks...
...David Charvet (Craig Field...
...thin, widely spaced purple or teal stripes. Says Barbara Kirk, a men's-furnishings buyer for the Seattle-based Nordstom stores: "A plain white shirt isn't just a plain white shirt anymore." Nor is it cheap: at Wilkes Bashford, the price can reach $235 for a French-cuff Charvet shirt, made of Sea Island cotton and imported from Paris...
...metals. Grunewald collected $10,000 for the project, paid the former Secretary of War $2,500. ¶ Every year Grunewald spent about $900 giving $7.50 ties to friends. The ties were cut from a special bolt of cloth reserved for his "Christmas Tie-Out Club" by Manhattan's Charvet et Fils, purveyors of expensive cravats. The ties, said Grunewald. went to "high-class people." The subcommittee got a list of "club" members from Charvet et Fils, then, red-faced, decided not to make the names public. ¶In 1950 Grunewald lunched with Dorothy Lamour and her husband William Howard...