Hickey Freeman Men's Fashion Brand

Two young entrepreneurs named Jacob Freeman and Jeremiah Hickey built this men's clothing company in the early years of the 20th century. Their plan was to bring high-quality hand-tailoring to men from coast to coast. The founding is told as a plan before it is told as a company, because the plan is the brand: hand-tailoring, which in the early 1900s still meant a local tailor's bench, made available to men from coast to coast. As they envisioned it, a Hickey Freeman suit would be a testament to both the delicate artistry of hand-craftsmanship and the steady consistency of modern technology. That paired standard - artistry and consistency, the bench and the factory - is the founding idea, stated in one sentence.

The factory opened in Rochester, New York and tailors from around the world gathered to manufacture fine men's tailored clothing. The factory sentence completes the plan's logic: gather the world's tailors in one Rochester factory, and modern technology's consistency can carry hand-craftsmanship's artistry to a national market. "Keep the Quality Up" has been the Hickey Freeman motto. Four words that turn the founding plan into a standing instruction - the quality achieved by that combination is the quality to be kept. No founding year more precise than the early years of the 20th century is given.

The Modern Gentleman and the Finest Mills

Designed for the modern gentleman with a global lifestyle and impeccable taste. Hickey Freeman works with the finest mills to bring elegant suits, tuxedos, and other tailored clothing to your wardrobe. The present-day description keeps the founding standard and updates its wearer: the modern gentleman, global in lifestyle, impeccable in taste. The means are the mills - the brand works with the finest mills, because tailored clothing begins in the cloth: a suit can be no better than the fabric it is cut from. Reading about suit fabrics before a purchase is worthwhile, through the blog route in this page's lists.

Suits, jackets, overcoats, trousers, shirts, tuxedos, knitwear, accessories, and more. The closing product list is a complete tailored wardrobe, and it is worth reading in its order: suits first, then the separates and outerwear around them - jackets, overcoats, trousers, shirts - then tuxedos for the formal end, and knitwear and accessories carrying the name beyond tailoring. The Hickey Freeman mens brand photograph is in the gallery below, and the official Hickey Freeman site is linked in References below.

Reading This Hickey Freeman Record

Read as a buying guide, the record gives a man the craftsmanship test and the cloth test. The craftsmanship test is the founding vision: a suit that testifies to both the delicate artistry of hand-craftsmanship and the steady consistency of modern technology, made under the motto Keep the Quality Up - judge the garment in hand on whether both halves are present, the hand-finished details and the even, repeatable construction. The cloth test is the mills: elegant suits and tuxedos begin in fine fabric, so read the mill cloth, its weight and its hand before the label.

Hickey Freeman, under H in the Men's Fashion Brands directory: the men's clothing company built by Jacob Freeman and Jeremiah Hickey in the early years of the 20th century, factory in Rochester, New York, where tailors from around the world gathered to manufacture fine men's tailored clothing - suits, jackets, overcoats, trousers, shirts, tuxedos, knitwear and accessories from the finest mills, under the motto Keep the Quality Up.

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