EVAN-PICONE HAND TAILORED LUXURY BLAZER

Charles Evans was an American business leader. He co-founded the women's fashion house Evan-Picone in 1949 and sold it to Revlon in 1962. He and his brother-in-law, Michael Shure, then founded Evans Partnership, a real estate investment firm. In 1981, he purchased the screenplay for the comedy Tootsie (1982). His brother Robert Evans produced numerous motion pictures, including Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Godfather (1972), and Chinatown (1974). After leaving the Army, Evans found work in an aunt's clothing store in New York City as a salesman. In 1949, Evans conceived of adding a fly to women's skirts. He approached Joseph Picone, a 31-year-old tailor and immigrant from Sicily who made clothes for Archie Evans and asked him to manufacture a sample. With seed money from Evans' father, Evans and Picone formed a company that same year named Evan-Picone to make and sell their product. (To make the company name easier to pronounce, the "s" was dropped from Evans.) Picone set up an assembly line to manufacture the skirts in a storefront located at Fifth Avenue and East 46th Street. The company was the first to use darts in the pockets of women's clothing, to inhibit rips and tears.[The skirts were a sudden success, and the company quickly expanded into high-end, hand-stitched women's slacks as well. Charles Evans became one of the first celebrity fashion designers] Within two years, Evans, his brother, and Picone were millionaires.] In 1962, Revlon purchased Evan-Picone for 12M