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Helping Others Find their Strong Suit - One Suit at a Time!

Tailored For Success is a nonprofit organization that partners with community organizations to provide free business clothing to those in an active job search.

For the second year, Tailored For Success, Inc., has been one of only two Massachusetts nonprofit organizations who are recipients of the Men's Wearhouse National Suit Drive. 

For one month, all of the Men's Wearhouse stores across the country have collected donations of gently used suits to pass along to men seeking to enter the workforce.  These donations are collected, and distributed to agencies that provide business clothing to men who are in need. 

Although Tailored For Success is known for providing women with business clothing, personal, professional image consulting and holding career workshops we also provide business clothing to men and at risk teens. Therefore, partnering with Men's Wearhouse is a wonderful opportunity for Tailored For Success to be able to offer high quality suits to men who need it. 

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Last year, Tailored For Success received a combination of 850 suits, dress pants, shirts and ties.  As part of the partnership with Men's Wearhouse, we were required to partner with other nonprofit organizations and distribute some of the clothing to organizations with smaller men's programs.  This has allowed us to develop some great relationships with organizations such as SolutionsWear (Cambridge) and Strive (Boston).  Although these organizations are located outside Malden, I have found that many individuals from Malden take advantage of their services and programs.

The staff and volunteers of Tailored For Success are very grateful for our partnership with Men's Wearhouse.  No words can describe the feeling of being able to help people in this difficult economy - whether women or men, we all can use a little confidence boost.  I can think of no better boost than to put on a "new" suit and look as successful as I know my clients will be.

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