Through licensing agreements it sells designer lines like Giorgio Armani, Chanel and Brooks Brothers--and churns out 130, 000 of its own frames every day.

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Not that there's anything wrong with Brooks Brothers -- there isn't -- but it's sort of funny how, in the end, something like that grass-stained MSU baseball cap seems to matter.

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Another room -- part of a damaged Brooks Brothers store next to the World Trade Center wreckage -- is set up as a morgue.

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Brooks Brothers launched a dressy button-down shirt in its higher-priced Luxury offering for spring.

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Start-up 8thBridge has been helping companies like Delta Airlines, 1-800-Flowers, HauteLook and Brooks Brothers sell on Facebook.

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All of the recruits looked pretty much the same anyway mid-20s, precise haircuts, gray Brooks Brothers suits (for men) and conservative white blouses (for women) that their parents had bought for them.

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Brooks Brothers decided to introduce a dressier button-down collar with a higher thread count and made with Italian-woven fabric in its Luxury shirt because sales staff had been getting requests from customers for such a shirt, he says.

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Flat-front styles represent about 70% of Brooks Brothers' casual pants compared with 50% two years ago.

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The e-commerce trend, also being adopted by large companies such as Hallmark Cards Inc. and Brooks Brothers Inc.

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If you've recently bought a tie with a Brooks Brothers label or shirts or chinos from the Gap or Eddie Bauer, you're probably wearing Nano-Tex treated fibers.

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