Children's Nautica Fashion Brand

Nautica stands second among the N brands, filed under the heading Trendy Kids Clothing, and this profile opens on the children's range itself: warm, cozy, and bright - prepare for cold-weather, or any other season of the year with Nautica kids apparel. Apparel for boys and girls is the children's scope.

You are probably already familiar with the brand, but here is a reminder anyway: over the past few decades, Nautica has become one of the most important and most recognized American brands throughout the world. That standing - one of the most important and most recognized American brands, throughout the world, over the past few decades - says it plainly. It is the context for everything that follows: this is not a children's-only label but a major American brand whose children's line is one part of a much wider range.

A Brand of VF Corporation: Men's, Women's, Children's - and More

Nautica is a mid-range to high-end American apparel brand of the VF Corporation featuring primarily men's, women's, children's apparel and accessories, as well as home, watches, and fragrance. Each part of that sentence places the children's line: mid-range to high-end as the price position, American as the home, the VF Corporation as the owner at the time, and a range running primarily across men's, women's and children's apparel and accessories, and beyond clothing into home, watches and fragrance. This page also links to the About Nautica page and the VF Corporation profile on this site.

At Nautica they celebrate, love and respect the water, everywhere, everyday. Their nautical heritage and spirit is reflected in every aspect of their brand categories and their quality products are crafted with integrity and are enhanced with performance capabilities. The water sentence is the brand's own creed - celebrate, love and respect the water - and the heritage sentence explains what a child actually wears because of it: a nautical spirit carried into every category, with products crafted with integrity and enhanced with performance capabilities.

Founded in 1983 by David Chu: State-O-Maine, 1994, VF in 2003

Nautica was founded in 1983 by clothing designer David Chu and a partner. The founding, in brief: 1983, clothing designer David Chu, and a partner who is not named. It was purchased for cash and stock in 1984 by State-O-Maine, a New York-based apparel company. Cash and stock, 1984, State-O-Maine of New York: the purchase terms and the buyer are part of the record, and they set up the unusual step that followed a decade later.

State-O-Maine changed its name to Nautica in 1994. That is the most distinctive fact in this history: the company that had bought the brand in 1984 took the brand's name as its own in 1994, so completely had the label become the business. VF Corporation purchased Nautica in 2003. The 2003 purchase closes the ownership history, and it is why the range sentence above calls Nautica a brand of the VF Corporation. Learn more about the Nautica kids clothing brand at the official kids pages linked in References below.

Buying Children's Nautical-Style Clothing Well: General Standards

The buying guidance here is general children's clothing guidance, labelled as a general standard and not as a claim about any current Nautica range. A nautical-heritage children's wardrobe is built from hard-wearing everyday pieces - polo shirts, chinos and shorts, light jackets and warm layers for cold weather, as the warm, cozy and bright opening above suggests. Judge each piece by fabric weight for its season, stitching at stress points, and closures a child can manage alone, and buy by current measurements with modest growing room rather than sizing up so far that sleeves and hems get in the way.

In short: warm, cozy and bright kids apparel for cold weather or any season, for boys and girls; one of the most important and most recognized American brands throughout the world over the past few decades; a mid-range to high-end American apparel brand of the VF Corporation, featuring primarily men's, women's and children's apparel and accessories, as well as home, watches and fragrance; founded in 1983 by clothing designer David Chu and a partner; purchased for cash and stock in 1984 by State-O-Maine, which changed its name to Nautica in 1994; purchased by VF Corporation in 2003; and a brand that celebrates, loves and respects the water, everywhere, everyday. A 2017 photo of Nautica kids apparel appears in the gallery below.

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