Brooks Bros. dapper Draper caper: Selling limited 'Mad Men' suits

Brooks Bros. dapper Draper caper: Selling limited ‘Mad Men’ suits

Senior Features Writer

Oct. 13, 2009 2:14 PM PT

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You may never know what it’s like to walk a mile in Don Draper’s shoes, but come Monday you’ll have a chance to don a sharp-looking sharkskin suit inspired by the ‘Mad Men’ ad men played by Jon Hamm (Draper) and John Slattery (Roger Sterling) -- and designed by the show’s costume designer, Janie Bryant.

Brooks Bros., which has worked with Bryant to provide authentic-looking threads for the denizens of Sterling Cooper since the AMC show’s first season in 2007, announced today that it will sell just 250 of the ‘Mad Men Edition’ suits, designed by the Emmy-nominated, Costume Designers Guild Award-winning Bryant, inspired by the tailored wardrobe of both characters and based on a two-button suit silhouette the storied clothier introduced in 1961.

The medium gray (they call it static gray) sharkskin suit, which has a noticeably trim silhouette, narrower notch lapels, diagonal pockets and side vents will boast a commemorative ‘Mad Men Edition’ label and retail for $998.

Our favorite touch -- not to mention a nod to the time when a man’s suit came from the same time zone as he did -- is where they were made: right here in the USA, at the Brooks-owned Southwick factory in Haverhill, Mass.

Brooks is throwing an invite-only bash to celebrate the collaboration at its Madison Avenue flagship tonight, and next week ‘Mad Men’-themed window displays -- incorporating original costumes from the series -- will be unveiled there and at the Rodeo Drive store in Beverly Hills.

The suits will be sold online at brooksbrothers.com and locally at the Rodeo Drive and South Coast Plaza stores from Oct. 19 through Nov. 8 (the date the season finale airs).

And remember, just because you can now dress in Draper’s duds, don’t think you can get away with chain smoking, drinking to excess and crashing on the office couch.

-- Adam Tschorn

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Adam Tschorn

Senior features writer Adam Tschorn is a former small-town newspaper editor, game-show question-and-answer man and fashion scribe who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007. He currently covers a wide range of pop-culture topics with a focus on cannabis culture. Holding a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in journalism, he feels perfectly suited to looking at things, asking “why?” and writing down the answers.