Clothing Company Definitions — United States clothing company definitions from Apparel Search
This index lists United States clothing company definitions for companies whose names begin with the letter B. The sixteen companies cover women's fashion and lingerie, workwear, surf and snowboard clothing, sporting goods, handbags and accessories, and clothing retail, and each name links to a full definition page describing the company, its products and its history.
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If you were looking for Bauer as in Eddie Bauer, you should have check the "E" section.
The sixteen B companies show how many different trades sit inside the single word clothing. Women's fashion accounts for several: Baby Phat, Kimora Lee Simmons's urban line for women and girls; Badgley Mischka, the evening wear and bridal label of Mark Badgley and James Mischka; Bebe, Manny Mashouf's contemporary women's retailer founded in 1976; and Bali, the lingerie company whose history runs from a 1927 founding as Fay-Miss into HanesBrands. Accessories have their own specialists: Be&D in handbags with Laotian design, and Belisi Fashions in ties, pocket squares, scarves and handbags from Jupiter, Florida.
Sport and outdoor clothing form a second cluster. Birdwell has made one product — heavy-duty Beach Britches swim trunks — in California since 1961; Burton Snowboards built the snowboard industry from Vermont from 1977 and dresses it as well; Brine, founded in 1922, supplies lacrosse and team sports equipment and uniforms; and Ben Davis, founded in 1935, is work clothing that musicians adopted as style. A third group works in graphics and subculture: Bangledox in eco-friendly clothing and hemp accessories, Bantam Apparel's topical t-shirt websites, Barking Irons' Bowery-inspired contemporary apparel, Black Kat Kustoms' hot rod clothing from Santa Ana, and B.U.M. Equipment, the Los Angeles athletic-logo brand of the late 1980s. Buckle, the Nebraska-born denim retailer, represents the retail trade itself.
United States clothing companies are filed alphabetically by company name, one letter per index page, so a company can be found by its first letter even when its full history is unknown. Each definition is a concise profile rather than a full company history: founding facts, headquarters, products, brands and lines, ownership where it is notable, and the events that made the company worth defining. Readers who need more depth on a company can follow the path into the Apparel Search fashion company profiles in the names directory, where major companies carry fuller profiles, and the clothing definitions list covers the garment and fabric terms used in these pages.
Companies change — they are acquired, renamed, or close — so a definition records the company as described at the time of writing, including dated facts such as acquisitions with their years. Where a definition gives a date, a founder or a place, that detail is part of the company's record and the quickest way to tell similar names apart.
The B list covers Baby Phat, Badgley Mischka, Bali, Bangledox, Bantam Apparel, Barking Irons, Be&D, Bebe Stores, Belisi Fashions, Ben Davis, Birdwell, Black Kat Kustoms, Brine Corp., Buckle, B.U.M. Equipment and Burton Snowboards. Each name links to that company's definition page.
Each definition page describes the company itself: what it makes or sells, when and where it was founded, the brands and lines it owns, and the notable events in its history, in a short standardised profile format.
Use the United States clothing company definition directory to reach the index page for every letter from A to Z. If you were looking for Bauer as in Eddie Bauer, check the E section. Fuller company profiles are also available in the Apparel Search fashion company profiles in the names directory.