Brooks Brothers | A Button-Down Bankruptcy

An episode of the Slate Business podcast, hosted by Slate Podcasts, titled "Brooks Brothers | A Button-Down Bankruptcy" was published on October 2, 2020 and runs 19 minutes.

October 2, 2020 ·19m · Slate Business

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For more than a century, Brooks Brothers defined fashion for a certain kind of east coast, American elite. It’s been the clothier to nearly every US president. So how did its madras start to bleed so badly?Podcast production by Jess Miller, with help from Madeline Ducharme, Hannah Klein, and Cleo Levin.Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Dear Prudence and Slow Burn. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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For more than a century, Brooks Brothers defined fashion for a certain kind of east coast, American elite. It’s been the clothier to nearly every US president. So how did its madras start to bleed so badly?

Podcast production by Jess Miller, with help from Madeline Ducharme, Hannah Klein, and Cleo Levin.

Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Dear Prudence and Slow Burn. Sign up now to listen and support our work.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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