Men's Fashion Brands J

Welcome to the J 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 J: five brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below - Jerzees, Jockey, Jordan, Joseph Abboud and Just Cavalli. J is a letter of strong, distinct brands. Two of its brands begin in the same year, 1984, in completely different worlds - Jerzees as a leader in apparel manufacturing and the Air Jordan 1 as a first shoe - while its oldest dated product innovation, Jockey's first men's brief, reaches back to 1934, and its remaining entries give a full designer biography and a fashion house label.

If you know of an important men's clothing brand that begins with the letter J and is not listed in this section, please let us know. Each profile below is given in full and at its own depth - Jerzees on quality, everyday value and imprintables, Jockey kept strictly product-focused on underwear and sleepwear, Jordan on shoes, models and athletic clothing, Joseph Abboud on the designer's working life and trademark path, and Just Cavalli on its classification and labels list, with a plain statement that no separate founding date or history is known for the label itself. Nothing has been padded to make the five sound alike, because they are not alike - and that variety is exactly what a brand directory is for.

The Five J Brands

The everyday end of the letter belongs to Jerzees and Jockey. Jerzees, a division of Fruit of the Loom, Inc., has been a leader in apparel manufacturing since 1984, making men's t-shirts, sport shirts and fleece in short sleeve, long sleeve, hooded and zip styles, and pioneering innovation in the imprintables sportswear market as a platform for garment decorating, embellishment, crafting, teamwear and corporate use. Jockey, from Jockey International, Inc. in Kenosha, Wisconsin, began its innovation in 1934 with the first men's brief and first men's Y-Front brief, and its focus stays on products: underwear and sleepwear for men, women and children, a trademark in 120 countries, leadership in the US department store channel, related brands in Target and Wal-Mart, and its product technology claims.

The other three J brands move from basics to names. Jordan is the Air Jordan brand of shoes and athletic clothing designed, owned and produced for Michael Jordan by Nike's Jordan Brand subsidiary, marked by the Jumpman logo, beginning with the Air Jordan 1 in 1984 designed by Peter C. Moore and continuing through named models, packages, Fusions and retro editions, with hoodies, t-shirts, shorts, pants and socks on the clothing side. Joseph Abboud is the letter's designer biography: a Boston working-class start, Ralph Lauren from 1981, his own label in spring 1987, JA Apparel in 1988, the trademark sold in 2000 and acquired by Men's Wearhouse Inc., now Tailored Brands Inc., in 2013. Just Cavalli closes the letter filed under fine clothing, footwear and accessories, in Roberto Cavalli's labels list, with no separate history of its own.

How to Use This J Hub

Start from the kind of clothing you are researching. For everyday basics and group orders, open Jerzees for t-shirts, sport shirts, fleece and the imprintables platform, and Jockey for underwear and sleepwear judged on fit, fabric and a product history that began in 1934. For athletic shoes and clothing, open Jordan and use its exact model and package names - Spizike, Defining Moments, Retro 6 Infrared and the rest - as your identification checklist. For tailored menswear and a designer's story, open Joseph Abboud and follow the dated path from Louis Boston and Ralph Lauren to the 2013 trademark acquisition. For a fashion label, open Just Cavalli and work from its classification and the labels list, reading the exact label on any piece before assigning it to one label rather than another.

Five names make the J section: a basics and imprintables leader since 1984, an underwear innovator since 1934, a shoe and athletic brand built around one player's silhouette, a menswear designer's dated biography and trademark path, and a Cavalli label filed by its products. That is the J section, with its order, its dates and its distinctions.