Posted on 09/04/2010 1:58:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Men’s Wearhouse will host a national suit drive throughout the month of September at over 1,000 store locations to help unemployed men look their best for potential job interviews.
People are encouraged to bring old suits, dress shirts, slacks, coats, ties and other accessories to any Men’s Wearhouse location.
According to the company, since the beginning of the recession roughly 82 percent of all job losses have been men, leaving almost one in 10 working-age men unemployed due to the hit on male-dominated industries such as construction and manufacturing.
"By collecting and donating professional clothing, Men's Wearhouse aims to help men 'suit up' for job interviews and offset the 'mancession,” said George Zimmer, Men's Wearhouse founder and CEO.
Planning to top 100,000 articles of clothing, the company will donate one dress shirt for every suit donated, and the donator will receive 25 percent off their next purchase.
For more information and participating locations, visit www.nationalsuitdrive.com.
“...roughly 82 percent of all job losses have been men...”
If 82% of the unemployed were women, there would be a media outcry and BO and the Dems in Congress would be having hearings every week. But since the jobless are husbands and fathers and our unemployed sons, who cares?
It's capitalistic altruism!!
May God bless them for helping those who need it.
Here’s to a lot of Dem congresscritters and staffers needing to avail themselves of this service next year.
I bought a suit from them. It was a nice suit and looked good. I need a new suit...
If you go there because of this, be sure to tell them! I’m sure they would be glad to hear it!
You can believe that. The first thing I will need to do is check to see if they are at the same location. Thinking about it I remembered that I took a pre Mrs Magslinger girlfriend. That was a while back!
Very impressive. One of these days, I’m going to have to buy a new suit. Men’s Warehouse will be getting my business. I know that I myself cannot give those people a lot of business (I’m a machinist, so it’s rare that I need a suit), but I have a lot of machinist buddies who could also use a suit.
What do you think that means?
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