Then, as their names were called, they formed a second line inside. The customers, in winter coats and sweats, crowded around the front door of 223 W. The shoes flew off the shelves, starting at noon. On Tuesday, Boone used a tape measure to size and label donated suits, and then he stocked dozens of new shoes donated by J Shoes in Owings Mills. So now he volunteers to help the founder of Sharp Dressed Man, the Baltimore tailor Christopher Schafer, and Schafer's son and business partner, Seth, with weekly operations. I put on the suit and looked in the mirror. Bank suit and a yellow shirt,” Boone said. He and more than 400 other men lined up in the rain over two days for Sharp Dressed Man's first holiday giveaway. A year ago, Boone was a Sharp Dressed customer, a 55-year-old Army veteran and drug addict in a residential treatment program. He's a volunteer with Sharp Dressed Man, the nonprofit that provided 235 men with suits, shirts, ties and shoes at no cost over six hours Tuesday. “It made me feel like a human being again,” David Boone said. I imagined the suit hanging in his closet, with Smith looking at it each day, a reminder about his daily journey to recovery. That's when, if all goes well, he'll complete a yearlong residential drug treatment program in East Baltimore.
Smith expressed the ambition to wear the suit next September, and not before. A dress shirt and splashy tie completed the ensemble. After slipping on a new pair of shoes to fully test the break and the fall of the cuff, the pants appeared to need no alteration. He had just been given a previously owned suit of winter-weight wool in navy blue, and the fit was almost perfect. In a part of Baltimore once famous for wide sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers, the old retail district at Lexington and Howard streets, men of all ages, shapes and sizes lined up Tuesday for a new set of clothes and the rush of confidence that comes with a suit that fits.Ī modest smile crossed Jeffery Smith's face when I noted the smart break in his pants.
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