The road that everyone now calls 14 Mile was finished in 1874 as Townline Road, and for a while it was known as the Clawson Road. Main Street was Niles Road, after Johnson Niles, whose house still stands up in Troy. Two farm roads crossing became a crossroads, the crossroads became a downtown, and Clawson has been organized around that intersection ever since.
A town with a middle
That matters more than it sounds. A city with a genuine center produces occasions where people who know each other are in one room, and it produces the specific anxiety of being the man who got it wrong in front of them.
The cure for that anxiety
Is not a more expensive suit. It’s a suit that fits, in a color nobody has to think about. A man in a well-fitted navy suit has never once been the person other people talked about afterward, which is exactly the outcome he wanted.
Where the fit comes from
A rack deep enough to hold his real size in more than one cut, 34 short to 70 long with portly on it, and Roman, master tailor at Lincoln Tailor, on site in our store, to close the gap between the rack and the man.
Also for Clawson: A 1954 High School and a School of 369. More on style consulting, or plan your visit to our Oak Park showroom.
