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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