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Suited: Inside Brooklyn’s Tailors for Gender Nonconforming Customers

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Photo by Eric T. White for TIME
By Eliza Berman and Kenneth Bachor

The saying goes that the clothes make the man, but what if the man can’t find clothes that fit? Bindle & Keep, a custom suiting company in Brooklyn, New York, exists to solve that problem for gender nonconforming people who come to them to get, perhaps for the first time in their lives, clothing specially tailored to their bodies. In Suited, a documentary produced by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner that premieres on HBO on June 20, Bindle & Keep’s Rae Tutera and Daniel Friedman allow viewers into their Brooklyn studio as they fit customers for new suits, many of them for special junctures in their lives: a wedding, a Bar Mitzvah, an upcoming job interview.

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Rae Tutera and Daniel Friedman at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.
Rae Tutera and Daniel Friedman at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.Photo by Eric T. White for TIME
Aimee Monko and Rae Tutera at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.
Aimee Monko and Rae Tutera at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.Photo by Eric T. White for TIME
Model Aimee Monko and Rae Tutera at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.
Model Aimee Monko and Rae Tutera at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.Photo by Eric T. White for TIME
Daniel Friedman at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.
Daniel Friedman at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.Photo by Eric T. White for TIME
Spools of thread at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.
Spools of thread at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.Photo by Eric T. White for TIME
Aimee Monko and Rae Tutera at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.
Aimee Monko and Rae Tutera at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.Photo by Eric T. White for TIME
Daniel Friedman amd Rae Tutera at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.
Daniel Friedman amd Rae Tutera at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.Photo by Eric T. White for TIME
Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.
Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.Photo by Eric T. White for TIME
Rae Tutera and Daniel Friedman at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.
Rae Tutera and Daniel Friedman at Bindle & Keep in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 6, 2016.Photo by Eric T. White for TIME

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Write to Eliza Berman at eliza.berman@time.com