Bobby Garnett
American clothier (1949–2016)
Robert Charles Garnett III (July 13, 1949 – May 19, 2016) was an American clothier. His vast clothing collection was regularly used in the film industry to outfit actors in period costumes. Over four decades, he owned several clothing stores on the East Coast. One of his customers was Ralph Lauren.
Life and career
Robert Charles Garnett III, sometimes known as Bert, was born in 1949 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Robert Charles Garnett Jr. and Sylvia Francis, the first of their two sons. A brother, Wayne, followed. His father, who died in 2003, was a naval architect; his mother, who died in 2020, aged 96, taught in nursery school during her children's formative years, and also had an interior-design business.
Garnett attributes his love of clothing to his mother: "She dragged my brother and I around every department store – Filene's Basement, Gilchrist's, R. H. White," he said in 2002. "She knew good stuff." By the time he was in his mid-teens, he was wearing the same clothes as that of men twice his age: gabardine jackets and cotton trousers.
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