Botany 500 is an American

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 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

Danny Thomas

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 on Make Room for Daddy, John Newland

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 on Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, Dick Van Dyke

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 on The Dick Van Dyke Show

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, Don Adams

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 on Get Smart

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, Telly Savalas

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 on Kojak

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, Bob Newhart

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 on The Bob Newhart Show

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, Dick Sargent

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 on Bewitched

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, Sherman Hemsley

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 on The Jeffersons

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, Jack Klugman

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 on Quincy, M.E.

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, and Bill Macy and Conrad Bain on Maude

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. Ryan O’Neal

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’s wardrobe was furnished by Botany 500 in the hit movie Love Story (1970 film)

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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.