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Bernard Lansky: 5 Fascinating Facts About Elvis’ Clothier

Posted on 11/16/2012 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyFans of Elvis Presley — and we’re thinking of the young, dashing Elvis of the mid-1950s — couldn’t help but notice how utterly cool his clothes were. For a young working-class hero from the South, the King was impeccably tailored, and rakishly so, in pink and black shirts, pegged pants and iridescent sharkskin jackets, and two-tone shoes. That’s because Presley got his threads from a hepcat who really knew 1950s male fashion: Bernard Lansky, the proprietor of Lansky Bros. on …