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The Duck Head brand was founded in 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee, by George and Joe O'Bryan, two brothers who were buying surplus U.S. Army tent material. The material was a heavy canvas known as duck, and the brothers began making work pants and shirts out of the strong material through the O'Bryan Brothers Manufacturing Company.
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Duck Head Shoes began being produced in the 1990s by Old Dominion Footwear of Madison Heights, Virginia.
Duck Head clothing is now a private label brand sold exclusively at Goody's Family Clothing stores. Goody's underwent Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008, and announced plans in January 2009 to liquidate and close all of its stores under a second Chapter 11 filing. The Duck Head brand was put up for sale by Streambank LLC with an auction for the brand scheduled for the end of May 2009.
Goody's Liquidated along with Duck Head brand.
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Duck Head began with a material looking for a use. Canvas duck — the heavy, plain-woven cotton fabric used for Army tents — is strong, abrasion-resistant and cheap when bought as surplus, and in 1865 brothers George and Joe O'Bryan of Nashville turned it into work pants and shirts. That origin explains the brand's whole character: the fabric came first, chosen for durability in work, and the garments followed its properties. Work trousers in heavy canvas wear slowly, protect the legs, and hold their shape, which is why canvas work clothing remained a Southern and national staple long after the surplus tents were gone.
The later history is a study in how an old regional brand is handled by successive owners. Delta Woodside Industries bought Duck Head in 1989 intending to create a national brand, then spun Duck Head Apparel off in 1999; Tropical Sportswear International bought the company in 2001 and went bankrupt in 2005; Duck Head Shoes had been produced since the 1990s by Old Dominion Footwear of Madison Heights, Virginia. In its final form in this record, Duck Head clothing was a private label brand sold exclusively at Goody's Family Clothing stores — a long-lived name kept in production as a retailer's own label — until Goody's own bankruptcies in 2008 and 2009 put the Duck Head brand itself up for auction sale in May 2009.
The name comes from duck, the heavy canvas the founders used. In 1865 George and Joe O'Bryan bought surplus U.S. Army tent material in Nashville, Tennessee, and made work pants and shirts from the strong canvas.
Delta Woodside Industries purchased the brand in 1989 to build it into a national brand, and Duck Head Apparel was spun off in 1999. Tropical Sportswear International bought the company in 2001 but went bankrupt in 2005, after which Duck Head clothing became a private label brand sold exclusively at Goody's Family Clothing stores.
Goody's underwent Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008 and announced plans in January 2009 to liquidate and close all its stores under a second Chapter 11 filing. The Duck Head brand was put up for sale by Streambank LLC, with an auction scheduled for the end of May 2009.