Hope Brick

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265 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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Living Your Legacy · How a Fashion Executive Built Teams That Win · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

But you had to be 16 to work.

And they said, lie about your age.

I mean, they taught me never to tell a lie, and I do not lie, but I did in that case.

And I said I was 16, and I got a job at a department store selling pantyhose.

You know, from there, my father, it's in my blood.

My grandfather was a furrier.

Yeah.

My father, a coat and suit buyer.

Yeah.

So in the day it was called cloaky.

A cloaky.

Yeah.

I think that might be a little Yiddish.

I'm not sure, but he was a cloaky.

And here's a story that we didn't share before.

So in 1964, roughly, you know, my father is a coat buyer, needed a resource to liquidate overstock coats because in the day there was no off price.

So he made friends with this gentleman named Monroe Milstein, who I believe was in Seattle or somewhere in Oregon.

And that's who he would job out his coats for.

And Monroe came to him and said, hey, Milton, I have an idea for a business.

And I want you to be my partner.

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