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However for those undergraduates who don't have a lot of money to burn, Keezer's Harvard Community Exchange, at 140 River St., has probably been Harvard students' most popular source of second-hand formal wear for years. "It's the busiest September we've ever had. We can't even keep track of the sales," says Leonard I. Goldstein, who runs Keezer's. "There's a whole new shipment coming in Monday...
...Keezer's sells both new and used tuxedos at prices substantially less than department stores. A new tropical wool jacket sells for $97.50, while new pants retail for $45. Used clothing is even less expensive; jackets are $35, and pants...
...days, wealthy Harvard students weren't given any spending money, just a clothing allowance. So they would go to J. Press and get a suit made with their clothing allowance and sell it to Keezer's to get their beer money," says Goldstein...
...Keezer's clientele is still mostly college students, but then "a lot of them grow up, graduate, get jobs and keep shopping here. But no matter what, they always remember us," he says...
This was proven last year in the spring, when an old, grey-haired man hobbled slowly and painfully into the store. He introduced himself as John F. Kennedy's valet, who used to come monthly to Keezer's to buy clothes for "the young master...