The whole room is bright with wooden beams, some extending to the ceiling, other than massive pole in the middle of the room, criss-cross the aspire to branch out. Rustic, such as the beams, floors, roof. In between, inconspicuous, and in comparison to the bar tender, metal scaffolding. And you hang on, the white shirts and black jackets and pants, which gives Marlon Arnold.
Without a Tuxedo to the Berlin does not come through the ball season. Today Saturday the economy dances to the Intercontinental last week, the capital city ball, the German police took place in trade-Union Berlin, in January, journalists, politicians and celebrities gathered at the Maritim Hotel at the Federal press ball. Who shows up at such celebrations, needs a bow tie and Tuxedo.
This Fly, there is the “borrow Wardrobe”.Photo: photo: Kitty Kleist-Heinrich
Arnold power, the Berlin schick, in his “Wardrobe” in the Großbeerenstraße. Since opening seven years ago, he didn’t come but yourself to wear a Tuxedo, he tells . new year’s eve is not offered the right opportunity. To rent a occasion in which he is not keen on the jacket: “I always come out of the Tube Station, the DJs every year, on new year’s eve. Rock the tuxedo down. The look sometimes as if they have not moved for three days the thing.“
The mother as a business Inspiration
The idea to open a Tux rental, he got through the work of his mother: she had a 1000 square meters large rental house in Cologne, for the revellers, but also for TV and television. As a teenager, he joined the family business, by offering private appointments with clients. Seven years ago, he opened his own Shop in a backyard in Kreuzberg. The Berlin way, he got used to it now, but I have taken. “I simply thought, I’ll kill you with my kindness. And that works quite well.“
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tuxedo rental in the backyard order. There creeps a the smell of moth balls in the nose, dirty carpets, dust covers the air and the endless clothes rails, which eventually disappear in the gloomy belly of the store. For Arnold, everything is different. A bright room, dark wood floor, a large painting in the entrance area and a showcase in a 70s retro Look. It could also be a Boutique for designer clothes in the middle of it.
bow tie and cufflinks for vacations.Photo: Kitty Kleist-Heinrich
In the iron constructions to hang 150 models of tuxedos in 25 different sizes and in four different sections.
And anyone who borrows a Tuxedo? Mature Ball Audience? Yes, says Arnold, but in the last few years, more and more young people come. Two high school graduates had to last year to your prom with a borrowed old Ford Mustang, and would have been completely at his dress. He believes that the Trend to more Glamour for the Younger comes from Social media. “Often, I feel, make for a photo that you can use your Instagram Account to fill up,” says Arnold.
Who wants a Tuxedo, you must make an appointment
make Given the prices – a tuxedo jacket, he gives it from 74 Euro, a shirt for 18 euros – a great investment for students. In comparison to the original price in the Store specialized affordable – however, there is at H&M tuxedo jacket from just 149 Euro. Several customers told Arnold, he had won also by the sloppiness of airlines. About the actor Francisco Reyes from the Film “A fantastic woman” – awarded with the Oscar for best foreign language Film. He needed last year, a Tuxedo to the Berlin Premiere of the film, after the airline had lost.
Who wants to Arnold in a Tuxedo, you must make an appointment. Fixed opening Hours, he has not. The Store he throws alone. And also the shirts of head self-Ironing, the cleaning didn’t do it good enough, he says. He is a perfectionist. There will also be clamped in the adjacent seamstress, which can be carried out within 30 minutes of individual Amendments, if the customer wants it.
“Wardrobe – Tuxedo rental”, großbeeren straße 71, dates to be agreed under 0163/2799378 or [email protected]
Fancy hire
Black Fly: In Berlin there are some addresses for men who want to dress chic. “Becon Berlin”, for example. There are several branches: At the Hausvogteiplatz 12, at the Imperial dam 38, in the Eldenaer Straße 35, and in the Landsberger Allee 131. More info www.becon-berlin.de.
in Order for a “Black Tie”event, dressing, Berlin also go to “Martina flint Tuxedo and Cutverleih”. The Store is in the Suarez road 55 in Charlottenburg. Is open Monday to Friday 11 am to 18 PM, Saturday 11 am to 15 PM. www.smokingverleih-berlin.de “For your big gig”, as it says on the Homepage, there are tuxedo “Suits Berlin” in the Eisenacher Straße 114, close to the Nollendorfplatz. Appointments only after arrangement, under 85 40 06 77 or 0160/847 41 11. More information available at www.hochzeitsanzuege.de (Tsp)
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