Men's Fashion Brands B

Welcome to the B section of the Men's Fashion Brands directory. In this area of the fashion brand directory you will find men's fashion brands from leading apparel companies and fashion designers that begin with the letter B: ten brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below in the original directory's listing order - Bass, Ben Sherman, Billabong, Blue Marlin, Body Glove, Boss, Bontoni, Brooks Brothers, Burberry and Burton. B is one of the directory's most wide-ranging letters: two surf-born brands and a snowboard company share it with an 1818 American clothier, a German tailoring house, a London luxury house and a seven-person Italian shoe workshop.

If you know of an important men's clothing brand that begins with the letter B and is not listed in this section, please let us know, as the original B hub invited readers to do. If you prefer to search by clothing category and not by a specific clothing brand, you are welcome to try our Clothes Guide, as the original hub also advised; and if you are specifically looking to review luxury fashion, you can try the Fashion Brand Directory - sound guidance for a letter that holds Boss, Bontoni and Burberry. The A-to-Z letter links the original hub carried ride in this page's alphabet bar, exactly as the directory has always laid them out.

The Ten B Brands, as Their Originals Kept Them

The letter's spine is heritage with dates attached. Bass is G.H. Bass & Co., founded by George Henry Bass in Wilton, Maine in 1876, maker of the first Bass Moccasin Cruiser in 1906 and sold, in the record's chain, to Chesebrough-Pond's in 1978, PVH in 1987 and the G-III Apparel Group in November 2013. Brooks Brothers is older still: founded in 1818 by Henry Sands Brooks as the first ready-to-wear fashion emporium in America, the oldest men's clothier in the United States, headquartered on Madison Avenue. Boss is Hugo Boss AG, founded in Metzingen in 1924, turned to men's suits after the founder's death in 1948 and organised into the BOSS, BOSS Casual, BOSS Athleisure and HUGO ranges the profile lists with their dates. Burberry, the London luxury house of the trench coat, states no founding date in its original, and its profile says so plainly rather than borrowing one.

The water and mountain brands fill the letter's second half. Billabong was founded on Australia's Gold Coast in 1973 by Gordon Merchant, whose home-made, triple-stitched board shorts surfers trusted before contest sponsorship carried the name worldwide. Body Glove was founded in 1953 by twin brothers Bill and Bob Meistrell, credited with inventing the first practical wetsuit in the back of their Redondo Beach surf shop, Dive N' Surf. Burton closes the letter from a Vermont barn, where Jake Burton Carpenter founded Burton Snowboards in 1977. Between them stand Ben Sherman - the British shirt launched in 1963, adopted by mods, 2 tone and ska and Britpop, sold by Oxford Industries to Marquee Brands in 2015 - Blue Marlin, the 1994 baseball-hat brand whose trademarks Concept One Accessories acquired in 2010, kept as a plain two-sentence record, and Bontoni, the third-generation Italian family company whose seven-person Montegranaro workshop makes bespoke and ready-made dress shoes. Every fact in this summary is carried in full in the profile it names, from its original only.

How to Use This B Hub

Start from the kind of research you are doing. For a brand's story, open its profile: each one preserves its original's founding facts, ownership changes and product claims in full, states plainly where the original was thin - Burberry and Bontoni carry no founding date in their originals, Blue Marlin no photograph, and those profiles say so - and carries the official brand site in References wherever the original linked one. For a purchase, use the shopping buttons on each profile and the men's clothing store directory linked from every page, and judge each garment against the standard its own profile records, from Bass's moccasin construction to Body Glove's fits-like-a-glove wetsuit test.

All ten originals behind this hub, and the hub original itself, were fetched live directly for this rebuild, and every editorial link the originals carried is preserved in the rebuilt pages - in the grid below, the alphabet bar, the navigation and each profile's own lists. Ten names make the B section: a Maine shoe heritage and an 1818 clothier, a Metzingen tailoring house and a London trench-coat house, two surf inventions and a snowboard barn, a mod shirt, a baseball-cap brand and a seven-person bespoke workshop. That is the B section as the original directory kept it, and this hub preserves its order - Boss before Bontoni, as listed - its range and its honesty.