GRAD SCHOOL PALS BUILD PANTS BIZ ONE LEG AT A TIME

Posted on August 13, 2008 
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Asking a guy if you can feel his pants isn’t a standard interview line. Then again, having him jut out his canary-yellow seersucker-clad butt and enthusiastically suggest, “You might want to grab the right cheek,” isn’t a standard response, either.

Brian Spaly, 31, and Andy Dunn, 29, are those kinds of guys - playful, personable and kickback. Still, behind their California-guy demeanor and longish, untamed hair lie a pair of enterprising businessmen with a full-fledged fixation - pants.

The former Stanford business school roommates are co-founders of Bonobos, a new clothing line built on the notion that men, especially young ones with athletic builds, need pants that fit better. For Spaly, it’s a preoccupation that goes back for some time - a self-proclaimed metrosexual, the Ann Arbor, Mich., native has been interested in fashion since elementary school. More…

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