Men's Fashion Brands N

Welcome to the N 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 N: four brand profiles gathered in the grid below - Nautica, New Balance, the New York Yankees and Nike. This hub also cross-lists a fifth name, The North Face, whose profile is filed under T in this directory; that link is in this page's lists, while the four profiles below are the brands whose own pages live under N. It is a short letter with an unusually wide span: a nautical sportswear house, a century-old footwear maker, a baseball team, and the world's leading athletic company.

If you know of an important men's clothing brand that begins with the letter N and is not listed in this section, please let us know. Each profile below stands on its own facts: a dated ownership timeline for Nautica, a pair of founding pledges for New Balance, a team's league filing for the Yankees, and a corporate scope statement for Nike.

The Four N Brands

Nautica is the nautical house: a mid-range to high-end American apparel brand founded in 1983 by clothing designer David Chu and a partner, purchased by State-O-Maine in 1984 - which changed its name to Nautica in 1994 - and by VF Corporation in 2003, a house that celebrates, loves and respects the water, everywhere, everyday. New Balance is the fit-and-function maker: New Balance Athletics, Inc. of Boston's Brighton neighborhood, founded in 1906 as the New Balance Arch Support Company, one of the world's major sports footwear manufacturers, committed to making shoes in the U.S. and manufacturing in the United Kingdom for the European market as well.

The New York Yankees are the team: an American professional baseball team based in the Bronx, a member club of the American League East division and one of two major league clubs based in New York, whose hats, team jerseys, t-shirts and many other clothing items are worn by fans around the globe. Nike is the scale leader: NIKE, Inc., based near Beaverton, Oregon, the world's leading designer, marketer and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories, naming Tech Fleece and Dri-FIT among its men's clothing technologies and owning Converse and Hurley as wholly-owned subsidiary brands.

How to Use This N Hub

Start from the garment, not the letter. For the sailing wardrobe's polos, chinos and knits, open Nautica and judge by its own two tests - nautical heritage in every category, quality crafted with integrity and enhanced with performance. For shoes, open New Balance and start where the company started in 1906: fit and arch support, then the stated blend of function and fashion, priced with the U.S. and U.K. manufacturing premium New Balance warns about and calls well worth it. For the fan's wardrobe, open the Yankees profile and shop garment by garment through the directory's hats, jackets, shirts and t-shirts guides. For performance athletics at the largest scale, open Nike, begin with Tech Fleece and Dri-FIT, and keep the family registers separate - Nike for sport, Converse for athletic lifestyle, Hurley for surf and youth lifestyle.

Four names make the N section on their own pages: the water-loving sportswear house of 1983, the arch-support company of 1906, the Bronx club whose mark circles the globe, and the Beaverton leader in authentic athletic gear. Use the grid below, the alphabet bar and the navigation to move between this hub, its four profiles, and the cross-listed North Face profile under T.