Obituary: Dressing with Style, Men's Fashion Was Brill's Lifework

Tom Brill, who passed away Nov. 1 at the age of 80, spent his life in the men's fashion industry, partially as owner of Harleys Shop for Men.

Tom Brill always had a taste for dressing with style. "He always looked like a million dollars," his wife of 60 years Jeanne Brill told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Designer clothing was his life, starting at a men's clothing store at the age of 14. The former co-owner of the long-standing designer men's clothing store in Shorewood, Harleys: The Store for Men, passed away Nov. 1 at the age of 80. He joined Harleys in the early 1950s, just a few years after opening in Shorewood. He left around 1968 for a short stint with the men’s designer boutique, the Bill Blass Shop for Men at TA Chapman Company, but returned a few years later and eventually bought the store in 1987 with his friend and long-time co-worker Tim Ryan, who owns the North …

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May Klisch: From Singapore to Shorewood

Local lighthouse manager had sights set high before realized Shorewood is world class.

May Klisch is the operations manager of the North Point Lighthouse at Lake Park. The Singapore native has reinvented herself several times during her professional life, with stints in the semiconductor, hotel and public relations fields. Nineteen years ago, Klisch arrived in Milwaukee, where she was expected to stay only for one year, during a orientation program with a cable company she was working for at the time. But, she met Russ, a local beer brewer, fell in love, bought a house and the rest, as they say, is history.  What is your favorite thing about Shorewood? I grew up in an environment — Singapore — that was always safe. You could walk the streets at 3 in the morning downtown and you're safe. Safety has always been an important …

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