In economic times as hard as these, it doesn’t even help to dress the president on an historic Inauguration Day.
From MarketWatch.com:
Hartmarx Corp., the Chicago parent of prominent apparel brands like Hart Schaffner Marx, Hickey-Freeman and many others, said late on Friday that it filed to reorganize under Chapter 11 of federal bankruptcy law.
Hartmarx is President Barack Obama’s suit maker, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, which reported that the company made the tux, topcoat and suit for his Jan. 20 inauguration
This article appears in Jan 20-27, 2009.
