By Joy Kraft
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Myron Kilgore of Springfield Township always has worked with kids - as a principal, hearing officer and diversity consultant - but he doesn't dress down to connect with them, preferring instead Bachrach, Hugo Boss and Armani suits, and Bruno Magli shoes.

Myron Kilgore chooses dark power suits for school hearings "because kids respect you more that way." (Michael E. Keating photo) | ZOOM |

"Every day he looks like he just stepped out of GQ magazine, even on dress-down days," say nominators Linda Gloecker and Kathy Sollman of St. Xavier High School, where Kilgore works on diversity issues.

"At school hearings I usually wear dark 'power' suits because kids respect you more that way," says the 67-year-old catalog shopper. "Other times, I wear business-type suits."

Describe your style: I try to dress "spicy conservative" because kids look at you and you have to be a model on a lot of things. And dress is one of them. They don't want to talk to some old guy who doesn't know what's going on. If your look is not together, kids know.

You can be found shopping: In a few stores around town for shirts and ties. I go where the brands are. Ninety percent of the time, it's a catalog or Internet.

Favorite fashion accessory: Ties. I love ties because you can change a shirt and tie and have a different outfit. I love the DeSantis Collection.

You can never have enough: Shirts. Ties. And shoes.

Fashion pet peeve: Brassy or too-loud outfits, like a lime suit. For some kids, it's OK, but for the most part, it sort of dresses you down.

You wouldn't be caught dead in: That lime suit.

Favorite finishing touch: My wife's approval. Then I know things are intact.

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