Brooks Brothers Coat

There are no ready-made clothes for women. That's going to happen only towards the end of the 19th century, interestingly enough. Because American men could buy suits off the rack, companies like Brooks Brothers were following fashion for them. And they allowed men to continue to entertain the fantasy that they themselves, of course, did not follow fashion. As Professor Zakeem puts it, in the United States, fashion no longer divided the aristocrat and the republican, but instead, women and men.