‘George [Frazier] also spent a great deal of time back in Boston through these years\u2014mostly at his father\u2019s house in West Roxbury\u2026.but now and again at Charlie Davidson\u2019s home in Belmont. Davidson was proprietor of the Andover Shop, a men\u2019s clothing store in Harvard Square. He was a close friend of Charlie Bourgeois and George Wein, and first met Frazier at Storyville about the time of the Lee Wiley Adventure. The two men became fast friends. They discovered that their tastes in clothes, jazz, books, and good times were very nearly identical. Through the last fifteen years of Frazier\u2019s life, Charlie Davidson was his closest friend and only confidant.<\/p>\n
It is not unfair to suggest that Charlie taught George Frazier everything he knew about clothes. Though George had always been a natty dresser, he never tried to pass himself off as an expert in the field until he got to know Davidson and started picking his brain. Davidson would take Frazier with him on buying trips to New York. In the Andover Shop, George would stand at Davidson\u2019s side as he watched his tailors cut the cloath for a coat or suit. Davidson was a big help in the preparation of George\u2019s \u201cThe Art of Wearing Clothes,\u201d a 10,000-word piece of men\u2019s fashion that ran in Esquire in September 1960.’<\/p>\n
~ Charles Fountain in ‘Another Man\u2019s Poison: The Life and Writing of Columnist George Frazier’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"