Posted on 04/26/2020 2:48:12 PM PDT by Bruiser 10
One defiant NYC business owner — who’s been deemed “non-essential” during the pandemic — has a message to New York: “I’m opening my doors come hell or high water.”
Eliot Rabin, whose Upper East Side boutique, Peter Elliot, is known for high-end men’s and boys apparel, refuses to follow a state order closing retail business not considered essential. He insists that his $85 pocket squares and $15,000 suits are part of the fabric of New York City: “Why is a liquor store essential and I’m not?” Rabin told The Post.
He admitted that many of the customers who can afford his wares have fled the city for vacation homes, but he’s here to provide “emotional essential support” for the ones still in town. The retailer is also offering them what he jokingly calls “internal vaccinations: Chivas Regal, Kentucky bourbon — have a nip and you’ll feel better.”
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He put a lesbian in charge? Diversity!
The Stones? The Stones? They look as clean cut as the Osmond Brothers!
Caught him in an alleyway, Sgt. Friday, offering to patch up my pants and give me a snugger fit.
I’m sure your wit greatly amuses you.
I think a man can be proud of both himself and his country without sweating to death in a suit at a summer baseball game.
Also, most ordinary people weren't wealthy enough to own a lot of suits, so they'd have to keep wearing the same threadbare ones to places and venues for which they were ill-suited. Wooden bleachers, for instance.
Must smarter -- and sharper -- to save the suits for dressy occasions more suited to the durability and cut of the fabric.
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