When WHYY’s Jonathan Menjivar got ready to buy his first suit, he was nearly 30. It was for his wedding. Menjivar explores his adult experience with this classic adolescent rite of passage with Scott Sternberg, the owner and designer of Band of Outsiders. It all comes together at the Martin Greenfield factory in Brooklyn, where that perfect British-invasion throwback suit is made.
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