Body Glove Men's Fashion Brand

In 1953 they invented the first practical wetsuit, which revolutionized surfing and diving. We came up with the phrase 'fits like a glove' and Body Glove was born. Body Glove was founded in 1953 by twin brothers Bill and Bob Meistrell: the brothers are often credited for inventing the first practical wetsuit in the early 1950s in the back of their Redondo Beach, California surf shop, Dive N' Surf. Body Glove IP Holdings LP is a surf/dive/wake/outdoor water sports brand started in the United States. The men's profile stays strictly product-focused, as befits a water sports brand: wetsuits and the clothing built around them are the subject.

From those wetsuits Body Glove branched out into other product categories: they now make wetsuits, swimsuits, clothing, shoes, life vests, sunglasses, wakeboards, backpacks, etc. The men's range it lists is apparel, boardshorts, t-shirts, rashguards, wetsuits, activewear, footwear and more. It is the Body Glove history of innovation and love of the ocean that challenges Body Glove to make products fitting every waterman's needs, and Body Glove pledges to continually build products that enhance and protect us both above and below the water's surface - the brand's own pledge, and the design brief every Body Glove product is judged against: enhance, and protect, above and below the surface.

The Wetsuit First: Reading the Range From the Invention Outward

The Body Glove record is organised by its invention, and reading it that way makes the modern range legible. The wetsuit came first - a practical suit, made in the back of a working surf shop in Redondo Beach by twin brothers who sold and serviced dive and surf gear at Dive N' Surf - and its test was functional: insulation and fit in cold water, the 'fits like a glove' standard the name itself advertises. Everything after it extends that protection brief outward from the water: rashguards and boardshorts for surface time, life vests for safety, sunglasses and wakeboards and backpacks for the day around the session, shoes and activewear for the shore. A shopper can therefore grade any Body Glove product by the founding standard - does it protect, and does it fit like the glove in the name?

As a buying guide, the record gives a man three honest checks. For a wetsuit, the 1953 precedent sets the questions: neoprene thickness suited to his water temperature, seam construction, and a close, glove-like fit without restricted movement. For boardshorts and rashguards - covered in the directory's rashguards and board shorts guides, linked in More to Explore - the checks are quick drying, flat seams against rash, and sun coverage. For the shore categories, the brand's pledge is the test: products that enhance and protect above the water as the suit protects below it.

Reading This Body Glove Record

The Men's Fashion Brands index and its further pages, the Fashion Designer Directory, the popular brands section, and the shopping, retail, wholesale, buyers and news areas are linked in the navigation and More to Explore list, along with rashguards and board shorts cross-references. The official Body Glove site is linked in References.

Body Glove, under B in the Men's Fashion Brands directory: a surf, dive, wake and outdoor water sports brand founded in 1953 by twin brothers Bill and Bob Meistrell of Redondo Beach, California, credited with inventing the first practical wetsuit in the back of their Dive N' Surf shop, named for the phrase 'fits like a glove', and grown from wetsuits into clothing, footwear, life vests, sunglasses, wakeboards and backpacks.

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