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10 Comments on "The Buttoned-Down Store Clerk"

  1. Jim | April 17, 2014 at 10:52 am |

    Hey CC:
    Not sure if this should be considered a compliment anymore.
    Hopefully it was.

  2. Mark | April 17, 2014 at 10:57 am |

    As a late-forties male who wears a lot of J.Crew, Brooks Brothers and Polo clothes and, almost always, am dressed thoughtfully in those clothes and am reasonably well groomed, I get taken for a salesperson in those stores regularly. I chuckle when someone walks up to me with an item in hand to ask a questions, in part, because I usually know the answer because I am into the clothes enough that I’ve read the backstory and am familiar with the stores sizing, selection, etc. At my age, I’m indifferent when it happens at Brooks or Polo, but feel it’s a good reflection on me when it happens at J.Crew as I am twice the age of most of the people who work the floors in those stores.

  3. Redcoat | April 17, 2014 at 11:19 am |

    These clothes have a backstory? I thought they were just made in China or Mexico.

  4. Mitchell S. | April 17, 2014 at 11:25 am |

    Take it as a compliment. Ralph Lauren used to work as a sales associate at Brooks Brothers selling ties.

  5. MAC | April 17, 2014 at 12:01 pm |

    I’ve never been in a Polo Shop that a fellow customer didn’t ask me for assistance or Brooks Brothers. Finally in the KC Polo Shop, I spent 90 minutes selling a guy three suits a sport coat and all the accessories. The salesmen thought I was with the customer, the customer thought I was a salesman, it was a hoot.

  6. DCG | April 17, 2014 at 12:18 pm |

    Happens to me all the time, on occasion I’ll volunteer my services to help ladies shopping for their husbands’ clothing (!?) to avert dress disaster.

  7. Squeeze | April 17, 2014 at 2:25 pm |

    Ah, yes, I remember it well.

  8. James Redhouse | April 18, 2014 at 6:40 am |

    For those youngsters who didn’t catch Squeeze’s allusion:

    http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/97887/Gigi-Movie-Clip-I-Remember-It-Well.html

  9. Henry | April 18, 2014 at 2:09 pm |

    I got mistaken for a Polo employee in a store recently. I was wearing a fedora, jacket, & tie at the time.

  10. A.E.W. Mason | April 18, 2014 at 2:15 pm |

    @James Redhouse

    Yes, to be followed by “I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore.”

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