Men's Wilson Fashion Brand

Wilson is the W letter's leather record, filed under leather jackets: Wilsons Leather is a U.S. leather retailer, selling products such as leather jackets, belts, shoes, handbags, and gloves. On this page you will find information regarding men's clothing with the Wilson brand - and unusually for this directory, the company's history is told as two separate companies that became one name.

The company began as two separate leather apparel manufacturer-retailers: Berman Buckskin, founded in 1899 and known for its fringed buckskin shirts and jackets, and Wilsons House of Suede, founded in the late 1940s in California and known for its affordable suede and leather apparel. A frontier buckskin maker from 1899 and a postwar California suede house: the two halves of the Wilsons story start half a century and a continent apart, and both founding notes sit side by side.

The July 2008 Sale to G-III Apparel Group

In July 2008, the company sold the Wilsons brand name, online store and 116 outlet stores to G-III Apparel Group. The precision of that record - the month, the year, and exactly what was sold: the brand name, the online store and 116 outlet stores - matters, because it defines what the Wilsons name has been since: a brand held by G-III, not the two manufacturer-retailers that built it.

The directory's own cross-references from this profile make that ownership route explicit: its link to the G-III Apparel Group company profile and its Wilson Leather News page are both in this page's links. A researcher following the leather label can move from this profile to the parent company's file and to the brand's news file without leaving the directory.

What the Wilson Record Tells a Buyer

For a men's buyer, the useful facts in this record are the product list and the two founding specialisms. The retail range is leather jackets first, then belts, shoes, handbags and gloves. Behind it sit the two original trades: fringed buckskin shirts and jackets from Berman Buckskin's 1899 line, and affordable suede and leather apparel from the late-1940s California house - the two kinds of leather knowledge the combined name inherited.

The brand's official site, Wilsons Leather, is linked in References below, and this profile links onward to men's clothing stores, wholesalers and menswear buyers. The record ends at the two foundings, the retail range and the 2008 sale, and no later history is claimed for the label.

Photos