Clothes make the man," Mark Twain once said. "Naked people have little or no influence on society."rnPerhaps with such thoughts jostling in his head, Steven Barrow Barlow, a 26-year-old investment banker, takes a trip to his tailor most Sundays after brunch. In the last couple of years he has brought in dozens of dress shirts, slacks, blazers and suits to be shortened, nipped, tucked and variously remade. Once Barlow emerges from the tiny dressing room, Magaly Rodriguez, the proprietor of 264 Tailor Shop on Manhattan's Lower East Side (established 1992), dutifully pulls out her tape measure, nudges him onto a 6-inch-high platform, asks his preference of the week and starts pinning with a fury. A week later Barlow picks up the work, feeling like a new (or, at least, slightly altered) man.
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