Gildan Men's Fashion Brand

Find the perfect balance of incredible comfort and style in their T-Shirts, Polos, and Fleece in a range of fabrications, sizes, and silhouette. The range opens on the wearer's side of the business - the finished garments a man actually buys - before it turns to the trade side. The range it names is a basics range: T-Shirts, Polos, and Fleece, offered across fabrications, sizes and silhouettes rather than in a single standard make. They offer premium, soft, cotton for all day comfort with a non-binding waist band that allows their Underwear to keep its shape wash after wash.

Gildan is a basics maker, and the questions it raises are garment questions. Is the cotton soft and premium? Does the underwear's non-binding waist band hold its shape wash after wash, as claimed? Do the T-Shirts, Polos and Fleece come in the fabrication, size and silhouette the buyer needs? Those are the right tests for a brand whose name appears on plain garments worn every day rather than on seasonal fashion pieces.

The Blank Activewear Business

Gildan Activewear Inc. is a Canadian-American manufacturer of branded clothing, including undecorated blank activewear such as t-shirts, sport shirts and fleeces, which are subsequently decorated by screen printing companies with designs and logos. That sentence is the heart of Gildan: the company makes the blank, and other companies - screen printers - add the designs and logos that turn a blank Gildan shirt into a band shirt, a team shirt or a company uniform. A very large share of the printed T-shirts a man owns may therefore have begun as Gildan blanks, whatever name is printed on the front.

The company also supplies branded and private label athletic, casual and dress socks to retail companies in the United States including Gold Toe Brands, PowerSox, SilverToe, Auro, All Pro, and the Gildan brand - sock labels across athletic, casual and dress socks, for retail companies in the United States, in both branded and private label form. They also have a printwear and corporate apparel divisions, which tie the two halves together: printwear for the decorated-garment trade, corporate apparel for organizations dressing their people. The official Gildan site is in References below.

Reading This Gildan Record

Read as a buying guide, Gildan gives a man the blank test and the basics test. The blank test applies when a printed shirt is in hand: the print belongs to whoever decorated it, but the shirt underneath - its fabrication, size and silhouette - is the maker's work: t-shirts, sport shirts and fleeces made to be decorated by screen printing companies. The basics test applies to the branded garments: T-Shirts, Polos and Fleece in a range of fabrications, sizes and silhouettes, premium soft cotton for all-day comfort, and underwear whose non-binding waist band keeps its shape wash after wash.

Gildan, under G in the Men's Fashion Brands directory: Gildan Activewear Inc., a Canadian-American manufacturer of branded clothing and undecorated blank activewear for screen printing, supplier of branded and private label athletic, casual and dress socks to United States retailers including Gold Toe Brands, PowerSox, SilverToe, Auro, All Pro and the Gildan brand, with printwear and corporate apparel divisions.