Botany 500 is an American brand of men’s apparel. It has provided wardrobe for many game show hosts and television presenters. In addition, the company also provided the wardrobes for Danny Thomas on Make Room for Daddy, John Newland on Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, Dick Van Dyke on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Don Adams on Get Smart, Telly Savalas on Kojak, Bob Newhart on The Bob Newhart Show, Dick Sargent on Bewitched, Sherman Hemsley on The Jeffersons, Jack Klugman on Quincy, M.E., and Bill Macy and Conrad Bain on Maude. Ryan O’Neal’s wardrobe was furnished by Botany 500 in the hit movie Love Story (1970 film).
Botany 500 men’s suits and sport coats were manufactured in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by H. Daroff and Sons. Their plant was located at 23rd and Walnut Streets during the ’40s and ’50s and beyond. They also produced another suit called worsted tex that had the image of the head of a German Shepherd dog on its label. The office, on the first floor of the plant, had a stuffed German shepherd standing guard. The top floor, seventh, contained the top coat design department and a fabric cutting floor.
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