Located between the coastal cities of Ranchos Palos Verdes and Long Beach, the town is , among other things, the birthplace of influential 1980s punk rockers the Minutemen, one of America's most important working ports, and a demographically diverse blue-collar mix of Latino, Croatian and Italian immigrants.
But unlike members of the Kennedy clan, Capuano who is of Irish-Italian lineage brings to the House a pragmatic, blue-collar progressivism, a byproduct of his long mayoral tenure in working-class Somerville.
Brooks Brothers decided to introduce a dressier button-down collar with a higher thread count and made with Italian-woven fabric in its Luxury shirt because sales staff had been getting requests from customers for such a shirt, he says.