Print, Photographic

Print. Black and white photographic print of a window display for Society Brand Clothes at S.L. Bird & Sons department store. Differing styles of men's suiting are featured in the display, including neckties, fedoras, suspenders, and overcoat. Two photographs of men dressed in Society Brand Clothes are featured between the displayed items. Signage in the foreground of the display reads, "Detroit, we're telling you!-- Society Brand Clothes For Young Men, and Men Who Stay Young! Are Yours -- at Birds' We selected Society Brand Clothes for Detroit Men only after exhaustive study and comparison had convinced us that NO OTHER men's clothing in America so completely combines Smart Style, Fine Quality, and Supreme Value! It's no trick to find clothes that will fit, --that will look well and wear well;-- plenty of stores can offer THAT and DO! -- But in only ONE store in Detroit will you find clothes that give you, in addition that that intangible indefinable something termed SMARTNESS so strikingly characteristic of Society Brand Clothes!-- And that store is Birds'! DO THIS--Just see the clothes, in our window or in our store! Try them on! Step before a mirror! Get the story that garments tell...That's all we ask!!" Printed in the bottom right corner of the recto is the photograph sequence number and name of photographer, "15710, Davis B. Hillmer."