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What an amazing story! An enterprising young guy, and a lucky fluke.
Martin Greenfield, tailor to Sinatra, Obama, Trump and Shaq, dies at 95
Defying boundaries of taste and time, Martin Greenfield made suits for President Dwight Eisenhower, gangster Meyer Lansky, Leonardo DiCaprio and LeBron James. Men skilled in the arts of power projection — along with fashion writers and designers — considered him the nation’s greatest men’s tailor. For years, none of them knew the origins of his expertise: a beating in Auschwitz.
As a teenager, Greenfield was Maximilian Grünfeld, a skinny Jewish prisoner whose job was to wash the clothes of Nazi guards at the concentration camp. In the laundry room one day, he accidentally ripped the collar of a guard’s shirt. The man whipped Max in response, then hurled the garment back at the boy.
After a fellow prisoner taught Max how to sew, he mended the collar, but then decided to keep the shirt, sliding it under the striped shirt of his prison uniform. The garment transformed his life. Other prisoners thought it signified that Max enjoyed special privileges. Guards allowed him to roam around the grounds of Auschwitz, and when he worked at a hospital kitchen, they assumed that he was authorized to take extra food. https://artdaily.com/news/167697/Mar...aq--dies-at-95
What an amazing story! An enterprising young guy, and a lucky fluke.
Martin Greenfield, tailor to Sinatra, Obama, Trump and Shaq, dies at 95
Defying boundaries of taste and time, Martin Greenfield made suits for President Dwight Eisenhower, gangster Meyer Lansky, Leonardo DiCaprio and LeBron James. Men skilled in the arts of power projection — along with fashion writers and designers — considered him the nation’s greatest men’s tailor. For years, none of them knew the origins of his expertise: a beating in Auschwitz.
As a teenager, Greenfield was Maximilian Grünfeld, a skinny Jewish prisoner whose job was to wash the clothes of Nazi guards at the concentration camp. In the laundry room one day, he accidentally ripped the collar of a guard’s shirt. The man whipped Max in response, then hurled the garment back at the boy.
After a fellow prisoner taught Max how to sew, he mended the collar, but then decided to keep the shirt, sliding it under the striped shirt of his prison uniform. The garment transformed his life. Other prisoners thought it signified that Max enjoyed special privileges. Guards allowed him to roam around the grounds of Auschwitz, and when he worked at a hospital kitchen, they assumed that he was authorized to take extra food. https://artdaily.com/news/167697/Mar...aq--dies-at-95
Thank you for this. I just read the link and I'm going to read the book too.
Adage, Clothes make a man comes to mind. Looking it up for the meaning, part of the explanation was how people interact, judge us.
Yesterday, a friend early 70's, wears makeup, dark hair, I
am 6 years older, no makeup, salt and pepper hair, a gentleman ? was asking my friend the location for a product. He then asked if I was her mother ! Felt Invisible and hurt ! Was going to write a Thread titled Invisible, probably now, learned to address All people, not let anyone feel invisible !
Of course! People often judge other people's clothes and style. Clothing can be a cue to economic status, and people of low socioeconomic status are considered less competent and less worthy of respect.
That's why many workplaces have dress code.
I wonder why so many people who spend lots of money on shiny white teeth, hair or nail care, or jewelry don't pay much attention to their clothes here.
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