Then Serling was probably wearing Daroff. 👍🏻
No, I was saying that Botany 500/Daroff sponsored wardrobes but didn't often provide them. These stars usually had custom wardrobes from bespoke tailors, not from ready-to-wear factories. When you see "furnished by Botany 500, tailored by Daroff" (or something to that effect) in the credits, it just means that they paid money to be in the credits and paid for the star's wardrobe. It doesn't mean that Daroff literally tailored the clothes for the star; it means that Daroff tailored Botany 500's clothes and Botany 500 paid to provide clothes. They just frequently didn't provide Botany 500 clothes. This was all cleverly branded and marketed to make us believe everyone on television wore Botany 500-branded clothes made at the Daroff factory, when in fact the stars all had much fancier wardrobes.
That's a big deal. You would think the idea would be that a viewer would like the suit Van ****, Serling, etc. was wearing and would, then, go to the store trying to find it or something similar, but all under the Botany 500 brand.
People care about the name they see more than anything else. And few people would notice the difference between a suit they saw on a small black-and-white television and what they see in the store. I know people who think they can look like James Bond if they buy a suit from Brooks Brothers. We know that an American suit doesn't look like a British suit or a Tom Ford suit, but most men just count the number of buttons on the front and the colour. On an old television set both of those things were impossible!
His suits were officially furnished by Don Richards, but like Dick Van **** he wore suits by tailor Harry Cherry. The cut and button-one style are the same.
A more extreme example has been seen in sports equipment, where a player has been sponsored by one manufacturer but prefers the equipment made by another, and so has the latter's equipment bearing the logos or other mark for the former. IIRC this would happen with tennis pros and their rackets, but it's also happened with track athletes and footwear.
It's not you, it's the tailor. I've seen short, heavyset men walk out of a Savile Row tailor looking like that. I don't know if there's any tailor in Los Angeles that still can make a suit like that. You'd have to go to London to get something that good.
Gale Gordon was on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, but he did indeed look great. David White played Larry Tate.
I would think H. Freeman or Empire could make you a suit like that now.
You need a world-class bespoke tailor to make a suit like that. High-end MTM could possibly do it too, but you're not getting that kind of suit for under $2,500.
When he started hosting Night Gallery he was wearing Daroff, because he was required to send back the suits "provided by him by a Philadelphia clothier" after season 1 wrapped. (This from "Night Gallery an After Hours Tour") He went on to buy the suits, as NG was picked up for a second (and final 3rd) season.
Probably $30-40. They're neither rare nor collectable. If it still looks good and fits your husband, it would most valuable if he can wear it.
