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Earlier this month, John Mehas was fired from his job as C.E.O. of Vineyard Vines, the privately held, Connecticut-headquartered maker of safety school frat scene canvas club belts and madras plaid cotton button-ups. Inauspiciously, perhaps, Mehas had also been fired from his previous executive gig, at Victoria’s Secret, where he briefly served as C.E.O. before making an inappropriate remark over Zoom. Nevertheless, Mehas, a well-known retail executive, was brought into Vineyard Vines in October 2022 by his old colleague, Roger Farah, an advisor to Vineyard Vines co-founders Shep and Ian Murray.