Brooks Brothers has outfitted 40 of the 44 American Presidents . United States President Ulysses S. Grant began his association with Brooks Brothers during the Civil War , when he ordered tailored uniforms for the Union officers in the American Civil War . President Theodore Roosevelt was fond of Brooks Brothers ' clothes ; he even ordered his dress uniform for the Spanish – American War at Brooks Brothers . Many more presidents , including Herbert Hoover , Chester Arthur , Franklin Roosevelt , John F. Kennedy , Richard Nixon , Gerald Ford , George H. W. Bush , Bill Clinton , and Barack Obama were known to wear Brooks Brothers clothing lines . Franklin Roosevelt wore a Brooks Brothers collared cape and fedora at the Yalta Conference in 1945
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