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And on cuffing pants?
If you’re wearing a classic jacket, whether it’s a suit jacket or sports jacket, I think you have to have a cuff. I like the weight it gives the bottom of the pant. I like the way it makes the pants break. I like the classic reference. When I see a man with no cuff to his suit, I just sort of think, Aw, poor guy.
When should you get a made-to-measure suit versus one off the rack?
If you don’t find the fabric you want or you want something slightly outlandish, then do a made-to-measure suit for the fabric. If you’re extra-wide or extra-tall, do a made-to-measure suit for your body. Because everybody’s body will look better in a beautifully cut suit. If you’re short, we can make you look taller with the right cut of the suit. If you’re really tall, we can make you look more in proportion by fitting the suit to your body.
Three good examples of why Ford says that he’s dressed every man he would ever want to: Tom, Hov, and Bond.
What’s your earliest fond memory of wearing a suit?
In the mid-1960s, we still wore a suit on a plane. If we were going somewhere on a plane, you had to put on a suit and a jacket and a tie. That’s just how people traveled then. You tried to look really great when you went into the airport. So often, putting on a suit for me meant getting on a plane and going somewhere.
What do you think about the criticism that suiting up for a party or club is uncomfortable or restricting?
But you can definitely dance in a suit. When I used to go to clubs in the late ’70s and early ’80s, I always had a suit jacket on. And I kept it buttoned. And I could dance with a drink and a cigarette in my hand as well. Look at Bryan Ferry!
Are you a good dancer?
I’m a very good dancer. People are surprised because they think I’m so restrained, but I have to say I’m a very good dancer.
Go-to dance song?
“Stayin’ Alive.” I listen to Studio 54 Radio on Sirius when I drive [my son] Jack to school, because I want him to know those hits. He listens to it now and knows all of them. He’s like, “That’s Donna Summer!”
How’s Jack’s suit game?
He doesn’t wear them a lot. He did the cutest thing the other day. He dressed himself in a black suit, shirt, and tie and some sneakers. He got my gardenia that I had worn the night before for the Met out of the trash and put it in his lapel—he had seen me doing that. He wanted to wear that to go home on the plane.
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