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Right now there is a warehouse sale going on at 346 Madison.
However, after that sale, when Manhattanites finally pick over sale items for the last time, the goods will take one more trip before being disposed of.
575 miles south of 346 Madison is 15 East Front Street, Garland, NC.
In the red-brick storefront, note the gentlemen mannequins wearing plus 4s.
So, while everyone in Manhattan was crowded into 346 yesterday, I set off to 15 East Front Street. The first thing I did was buy a Sun Drop, a regional soft drink that's hard to find outside the Carolinas.
Eventually after a long drive down some two-lane highways, through the middle of eastern North Carolina, you reach Garland. Garland is a small town of about 1 sq mile, with 800 people, and it's as flat as a card table. There is no stoplight in town, but there is one intersection where the traffic on Hwy 701 was a flashing caution light, and crossing traffic has a flashing stop light. The per capita income is $13,500 and a quarter of the residents live below the poverty level. There was a Dollar General store but it went out of business last year. OTOH, there is a new Piggly Wiggly, which you can see on the edge of the picture of the Brooks store I took yesterday. At the end of the street you're looking down is the Garland Shirt Company.
Here's a barbershop also on East Front Street, the only other business I saw in town with any lights on. It's in the same block of buildings as the Brooks Clearance Center.
Here's a picture of the suit room. Most of those jackets are orphaned suitcoats, although there is a good smattering of cord and madras odd jackets. In fact, there were probably less than 10 suits.
In the middle you'll see a long line of trouser racks, mostly pastel, paisley, white, orange cords, etc. Outerwear at the end, and some of it is pretty nice if you like Brook's casual outerwear, fake-Barbours, quilted coats, Barracuda-style jackets, etc. Then you have women's clothes on the right of the screen.
You enter the building under the Brooks Bros script, and find a room of almost nothing but shirts in two long rows down the middle, with ties lining one wall. Most are geometrics or prints that didn't sell well. There were a few ancient madder ties, some seersucker, a box of knits, and (surprisingly) some traditional rep ties that were wearable and didn't look like crap. Also there were a few decent printed ties (usually they are all crappy).
If you've ever bought on ebay from armyhardhat, most likely the goods came from here.
Garland Shirt Company is the largest employer in town of about 800 people. This happens to be where most, if not all, the USA-made Brooks Brothers shirts come from. I did find some pretty large turkey and chicken farms outside of town though. In case you're wondering where your MTM Brooks shirt comes from, it's here:
You can see this building from the Brooks store if you know where to look. They are about 400 yards apart probably.
Of course, I didn't drive to bumfizzle eastern NC just to take photos for styleforum
Aside from 5 ribbon watchbands for $5, some embroidered cords, and a few shirts, I picked up a new pair of formal captoes. The store almost never has men's shoes. There are usually Brooks women's shoes, one time they had a nice pair of Italian wingtips, another trip they had some formal pumps, and this time they had about 6 pairs of these formal captoes, which were made in Spain and feel sort of like ballroom dance shoes. They also had one pair of white bucks.
However, after that sale, when Manhattanites finally pick over sale items for the last time, the goods will take one more trip before being disposed of.
575 miles south of 346 Madison is 15 East Front Street, Garland, NC.
In the red-brick storefront, note the gentlemen mannequins wearing plus 4s.
So, while everyone in Manhattan was crowded into 346 yesterday, I set off to 15 East Front Street. The first thing I did was buy a Sun Drop, a regional soft drink that's hard to find outside the Carolinas.
Eventually after a long drive down some two-lane highways, through the middle of eastern North Carolina, you reach Garland. Garland is a small town of about 1 sq mile, with 800 people, and it's as flat as a card table. There is no stoplight in town, but there is one intersection where the traffic on Hwy 701 was a flashing caution light, and crossing traffic has a flashing stop light. The per capita income is $13,500 and a quarter of the residents live below the poverty level. There was a Dollar General store but it went out of business last year. OTOH, there is a new Piggly Wiggly, which you can see on the edge of the picture of the Brooks store I took yesterday. At the end of the street you're looking down is the Garland Shirt Company.
Here's a barbershop also on East Front Street, the only other business I saw in town with any lights on. It's in the same block of buildings as the Brooks Clearance Center.
Here's a picture of the suit room. Most of those jackets are orphaned suitcoats, although there is a good smattering of cord and madras odd jackets. In fact, there were probably less than 10 suits.
In the middle you'll see a long line of trouser racks, mostly pastel, paisley, white, orange cords, etc. Outerwear at the end, and some of it is pretty nice if you like Brook's casual outerwear, fake-Barbours, quilted coats, Barracuda-style jackets, etc. Then you have women's clothes on the right of the screen.
You enter the building under the Brooks Bros script, and find a room of almost nothing but shirts in two long rows down the middle, with ties lining one wall. Most are geometrics or prints that didn't sell well. There were a few ancient madder ties, some seersucker, a box of knits, and (surprisingly) some traditional rep ties that were wearable and didn't look like crap. Also there were a few decent printed ties (usually they are all crappy).
If you've ever bought on ebay from armyhardhat, most likely the goods came from here.
Garland Shirt Company is the largest employer in town of about 800 people. This happens to be where most, if not all, the USA-made Brooks Brothers shirts come from. I did find some pretty large turkey and chicken farms outside of town though. In case you're wondering where your MTM Brooks shirt comes from, it's here:
You can see this building from the Brooks store if you know where to look. They are about 400 yards apart probably.
Of course, I didn't drive to bumfizzle eastern NC just to take photos for styleforum
