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 H. The seven companies are Hanesbrands, Heartcore Clothing, Hillhouse Tailors, Hollister, Hot Topic, House of Diehl and Hurley International, covering basics and branded apparel, custom dress shirts, surf-inspired youth clothing, music retail, avant-garde fashion and surf and skate clothing, and each name links to a full definition page describing the company, its products and its history.
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The seven H companies span the full width of the American clothing trade. Hanesbrands, based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and spun off by Sara Lee in 2006, is the basics giant: Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali and a dozen more brands, plus around 250 factory outlet stores. Hot Topic, founded in 1988, is the music retail specialist, with 684 United States locations as of April 2008 selling licensed band t-shirts, fashion apparel and accessories, and its Torrid division for plus sized young women. Hollister, the Abercrombie and Fitch lifestyle brand launched in July 2000, sells Southern California surf-inspired clothing to customers aged 14 to 24 through beach-shack styled stores.
The smaller H companies are specialists. Heartcore Clothing, started in Tampa in 2004 by James Breen, built its name sponsoring bands including Aiden, Hawthorne Heights and Gym Class Heroes. Hillhouse Tailors, founded in 2007 by Yale graduate Shawn Liu, sells bespoke custom dress shirts online, through retail partners and with a travelling sales team. House of Diehl is the New York avant-garde partnership of Mary Jo Diehl and Roman Milišić, known for Instant Couture live fashion performance and Style Wars. Hurley International, founded by Bob Hurley in Costa Mesa and owned by Nike since 2002, makes surf, skate and music clothing with roots in surfboard shaping and Billabong USA.
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. The H letter shows the value of that neutrality: a publicly traded basics group, two national retail chains, a surf brand owned by Nike, a custom shirt startup, a band-sponsored indie label and an avant-garde atelier all sit side by side because they share an initial.
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. Companies change — they are acquired, renamed, relaunched or close — so a definition records the company as described at the time of writing, including dated facts such as store counts, acquisitions and launches with their years, so the record stays useful even after the company itself has moved on.
The H list covers Hanesbrands, Heartcore Clothing, Hillhouse Tailors, Hollister, Hot Topic, House of Diehl and Hurley International. 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.