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...Merchant Tailors' Designers Association's choice of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Best Dressed Man in the U. S. shocked President Raymond G. Twyeffort of the National Association of Merchant Tailors. As to the President's famed grey morning coat which delighted the M.T.D.A., N.A.M.T.'s Twyeffort declared: "He violated all rules by wearing that suit. . . . Not even the President of the U. S. is permitted to depart from conformity...
Sponsor of these and many another innovation in men's clothes is dapper Ray mond Godfrey Twyeffort, chairman of the Fashion Committee. He was conspicuous at the convention in a large-checked rope-shouldered suit of grey and red, with flaming red handkerchief, white spats and chamois gloves. (He kept the left one on.) He has no sympathy for men who do not believe in color. Cried he: "Color will bring back prosperity...
Born in Manhattan 45 years ago, Tailor Twyeffort (Welsh for "two forts") went to Horace Mann School, then to England to prepare himself before taking over his father's famed shop. Creative, artistic, temperamental, he resembles the French couturier more than most of his Fifth Avenue colleagues. He changes clothes at least 30 times a week. He is reputed to get higher prices for clothes than any tailor...
Although U. S. merchant tailors gross $80,000,000 annually (1932), they clothe less than one out of every 100 U. S. males. And tailors like Twyeffort and Bell of Manhattan, Dunne of Boston, Stewart of Philadelphia do only a fraction of that business. But the customers for whom they make $120 sack suits (1929 price: $150) are generally to be found sitting at the head of most directors' tables or behind ultra-modest little signs labeled "The President...
Princeton: Cohn, g.; West, l.f.b.; Cator, r.f.b.; Harris, l.h.b.; Hoskins, c.h.b.; Twyeffort, r.h.b.; Cameron, l.o.f.; Savage, l.i.f.; Preyer, c.; Humphries, r.o.f...
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