No visit to Manhattan is complete without a stop at the Alan Flusser Custom Shop in midtown. Though I was there to inquire about a banana colored Mackintosh for the coming rainy season, I was struck by several small displays lying about the store, each with elements both classic and unexpected. Consider, for example, the silver and purple checked necktie in the photo. 
Admire the knotted wool neckerchief on the tailor's form. 
And take a second look at the paisley sports shirt, in a print that looks surprisingly appropriate under an odd jacket.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Bits of Flusser Lying About
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Still has some nifty stuff, doesn’t he? I think his offbeat eye is good medicine for us all. Though I wish he’d replace those dungarees he has been photographed in recently.
I still have several shades of M. Flusser's jolly roger neckwear. Just about everyday they seem perfectly appropriate. Must be these times have been lasting a long time.
i've never visited his store, but his taste seems extraordinary.
those belts seem lovely.
Will, i wonder if you been to the Paul Stuart store, and what do you think of their clothes and windows?
Paul Stuart is a fine store that covers a much broader range than Flusser, with the almost inevitable dilution that accompanies that range.
Will, it looks like the white balance of your pictures may need some adjustment. Otherwise, nice report on the accessories.
The colors are accurate. Mr. Flusser's walls are dark.
I would just like to say a few words on behalf of the great store "Paul Stuart" of Madison and 45th in New York. Mr. Ostrove senior, his son Paul Ostrove (for whom the store was named) and the inimitable Cliff Grodd had, at one time, perhaps the finest men's store in all of America.
Mr. Grodd's standards were unwavering, his taste superb and his sense of subtle showmanship unsurpassed. He attracted the finest in salesmen, fitters and tailors who stayed at the store for decades.
Jimmy Smart's windows, he late of Selfridges and lured to New York by Mr. Grodd himself set a whole new standard for window display in the early '70's that is still being
emulated but rarely equalled today.
Nothing at Paul Stuart was ever particularly diluted, except the scotch served to the gentlemen upstairs in "clothing" late on a Friday afternoon.
great post! Next time I am around Flusser I will check out the store.
my god their windows can be breathtaking, it can be very late at night and i'll find myself studying those arranges.
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