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 D. The six companies run from women's specialty retail and durable workwear to streetwear, a New York designer label, leather handbags and a canvas clothing brand founded in 1865, and each name links to a full definition page describing the company, its products and its history.
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The D list spans more than a century of American clothing and several very different trades. Duck Head, founded in Nashville in 1865 from surplus Army tent canvas, and Dickies, the Fort Worth workwear maker that began in 1918 making bib overalls, represent work clothing built for durability. Deb Shops represents specialty retail: a Philadelphia chain that grew from a 1932 hosiery store into hundreds of mall stores. DKNY is designer fashion, Donna Karan's New York label founded in 1985, while Dooney & Bourke is an accessories house built into handbags in All-Weather Leather. Dirtbag Clothing, founded in San Francisco in 1996, is the internet-era entry, selling punk and street clothing largely online.
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 D list covers Deb Shops, Dickies, Dirtbag Clothing, DKNY, Dooney & Bourke and Duck Head. 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. Fuller company profiles are also available in the Apparel Search fashion company profiles in the names directory.