Since our founding in 1818, we’ve had the privilege of dressing nearly every President since.   Portraits one of our most notable clients, Abraham LIncoln, wore a Brooks Brothers overcoat to his second inauguration and tragically again five weeks later when he was assassinated.    Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant and Woodrow Wilson all were clad in Brooks Brothers suits when they took their oaths of office. The great Navy cape worn by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945, wh…en he met Churchill and Stalin at Yalta, also carried the Brooks Brother label.    Slide 1 – President Abraham Lincoln wore a Brooks Brothers custom black frock coat to his Second Inaugural swearing-in ceremony in 1865. Slide 2 – Sunday Evening Post from 1945 “Abe Lincoln Shopped Here” by John Durant and Lloyd Mann  Slide 3 – The embroidered lining of Abraham Lincoln’s Brooks Brothers coat depicts an eagle holding a banner with the inscription, “One Country, One Destiny.” Slide 4 – Franklin D. Roosevelt wore a Brooks Brothers cape meeting with world leaders.