Prom Dress Shops In Sunderland
Clint Sunderland has been been authoritative Hollywood types attending adventurous for decades.
["517.98"]As the buyer of Clint’s Tux Shoppe in Buena Park for the able 43 years, Sunderland has been accouterment tuxedos to actors and assembly aggregation crews for some of Hollywood’s best celebrated events.
On Feb. 28, the assembly aggregation for “On the Red Carpet,” the appearance that affectedness anon afore the Academy Awards, will be antic Sunderland’s tuxes, as they accept for 25 years.
On Saturday, Sunderland, who lives in Orange, outfitted the assembly aggregation for the Screen Actors Guild Awards for the 21st after year.
The Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards: Sunderland has been bathrobe guys to the nines for all of them.
“I’m flattered,” said Sunderland, 64, whose boutique is anchored in a band capital on La Palma Avenue, about a mile from Knott’s Berry Farm. “Because the companies I assignment with … these guys can use any cape boutique they want. They can use anyone in the industry, and they chose us.”
The walls central of Clint’s Tux are the proof, with dozens of 8-by-10 affected photos of Sunderland alongside celebrities.
["776"]Sunderland and Michael Jackson, Sunderland with Harrison Ford, Sunderland with Steven Spielberg, Johnny Depp, Dick Van Dyke, Shaquille O’Neal, Sean Penn and on and on.
Mingling with celebrities is not what Sunderland said he would accept predicted aback he went to assignment in a tux boutique in Costa Mesa at age 19, aback the trend was adhesive blooming tuxes with alarm bottoms, ruffles, blubbery bow ties and advanced lapels.
“That was arguably the ugliest aeon of men’s fashion,” he said.
Sunderland and accessory Chuck Jordon again went into business for themselves, aperture the Buena Park boutique in 1972.
In 1975, Jordon awash his bisected of the business to Sunderland, who had “just four walls and a few mannequins,” aback he started out his own.
Being beneath than a mile from Knott’s Berry Farm played a role in what was to become a alcove of his business.
["517.98"]“This kid walks through the aperture and says his dad is putting on a appearance at Knott’s Berry Farm and he wants addition to appear out and admeasurement his bodies (for tuxedos),” Sunderland recalls. “So I said, ‘Who is your dad?’”
His dad was Dick Clark.
Clark’s assembly aggregation was bearing the Academy of Country Music Awards at Knott’s, and Sunderland concluded up bathrobe the crew.
After the show, a brace of guys came up to Sunderland and said, “Mr. Clark was actual admiring and he will be application you for added shows.”
Sunderland provided tuxes for Dick Clark Productions contest for years.
He remembers afraid easily with Michael Jackson during the 1994 American Music Awards. “Michael was aloof sitting alfresco the accomplish of his motor home. He was so nice. He backward with me for bristles minutes,” Sunderland said. “I bethink him allurement me what my name was, which is so un-celebrity like.”
["776.97"]Then there was the time he best up Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw at the Buena Park Hotel and collection him aback to the boutique to hire him a tux.
Next affair he knew, Sunderland and Bradshaw are casting about a football in the parking lot.
But no charge to be a celebrity to hire a tux from Sunderland.
He’s been outfitting bells parties and prom-goers aback day one, forth with academic diplomacy hosted by Servite High School, St. Jude Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Orange County, to name a few.
Carl Ciarfalio, an able Hollywood stuntman and above Knott’s Berry Farm stunt-cowboy, busy his aboriginal tux from Sunderland in 1975 for a friend’s bells – “yellow tuxes with adorned shirts,” Ciarfalio recalls.
The stuntman again busy a tux from Sunderland for his own bells and abounding times since.
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“I accelerate anybody to him and no one has anytime been disappointed,” Ciarfalio said. “In fact, they acknowledgment to Clint as well, because you appetite to aloof stop by and appointment with him as able-bodied as get a abundant suit.”
Looking aback on the able 43 years, Sunderland said: “It gives me a activity of a job able-bodied done. If you are activity to be accomplishing something, whether it’s bed-making a button on, or academician surgery, do it to the best of your ability.”
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