
Big & tall retailer Destination XL Group launched its first-ever big national ad campaign — but no major network would air it.
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Web Editor Harry Sheff also covers the furnishings and men’s grooming markets for MR Magazine. He is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota and although he has lived in Brooklyn, New York for five years, he still hasn’t lost his quaint Midwestern patois. His first memories of the menswear business come from the long defunct Sims Ltd. in downtown Minneapolis, where his father bought suits in the 1980’s. He is an avid home bartender and collector of men’s colognes, two subjects he blogs about in his spare time.

Big & tall retailer Destination XL Group launched its first-ever big national ad campaign — but no major network would air it.

“This is the first season ever that we’ve had a total sellout,” Forsyth of Canada’s Harris Hester said of his colorful spring neckwear collection.

American Apparel Inc. announced its preliminary figures for March, with same-store sales up 8 percent and total sales up 2 percent to $50.3 million.

From its roots in Minneapolis, the pop-up menswear flea market is becoming a traveling event; last week it showed in Los Angeles.

JCPenney’s board of directors has let CEO Ron Johnson go and rehired former chief executive Myron “Mike” Ullman.
A 20-year-old Canadian apparel duty program has been unceremoniously halted and am Ontario shirt factory has closed.

Harry Sheff: Twin brothers Danny and Kenny King have launched a neckwear business inspired by a Minneapolis news anchor’s famous tie knot.
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