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In a less permissive era, showing one's suspenders was considered unseemly. Not so today. When Drugstore Magnate Lewis Lehrman ran for Governor of New York last year, his political trademark was a prominently displayed set of fire-engine red ones. Lehrman lost, but he is sticking with his red suspenders. After all, he says, "they hold my pants up."
