...Certainly weather affects our buying habits. "The well-dressed man has to have seasonal wardrobes for the 95-degree summer day as well as for the 30-below, 50-mile-an-hour-wind winter days," says Albert Karoll, owner of Richard Bennett Custom Tailors. Aside from the coats, boots, gloves, hats, and long underwear necessary for winter survival, Karoll's customers "tend to dress more formally in fall and winter seasons," he says. All that bundling up from September to April may also have a mobilizing effect when the weather warms. "In the winter, we're wrapped up in 500 pounds of down," says Long. "During the summer, the city explodes. We're just so excited to be out of these clothes."