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 N. The eleven companies are Nautica, Neighborhoodies, Nelly Don, New Era Cap Company, Nike, Inc., No Fear, No Nonsense, No Sweat Apparel, Not of this World Apparel, The Natori Company and The North Face, covering nautical sportswear, custom apparel, dress manufacturing, headwear, athletic footwear and apparel, lifestyle clothing, legwear, sweatshop-free clothing, Christian apparel, women's fashion and outdoor products, and each name links to a full definition describing the company, its products and its history.
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The eleven N companies span more than a century of American clothing history and almost every way of making and selling clothes. The oldest story here is Nelly Don, the Kansas City dress manufacturer named for founder Ellen Quinlan Donnelly Reed, which manufactured 75 million dresses from 1916 to 1978 and was the largest dress manufacturer of the 20th century. New Era Cap Company, founded in Buffalo, New York in 1920 by German immigrant Ehrhardt Koch, built a business on a single product category, headwear, and became the exclusive manufacturer and marketer of the official on-field cap worn by every Major League Baseball team. At the other end of the timeline, Neighborhoodies, No Sweat Apparel and Not of this World Apparel were all founded in 2000 or 2001, each built around a distinct idea about what clothing should stand for.
Scale varies as widely as age. Nike, Inc., headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, is described as the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel, with revenue in excess of 18.6 billion dollars in its fiscal year 2008 and more than 30,000 employees worldwide at that time. Nautica, founded in 1983 by David Chu and purchased by VF Corporation in 2003, grew from a collection of just six sailing jackets to a global lifestyle brand available in more than 65 countries. The North Face, established in 1968 in San Francisco, specialises in outerwear, fleece, footwear and equipment for climbers, mountaineers, skiers, snowboarders, hikers and endurance athletes, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of VF Corporation, so two of the eleven N companies share the same parent.
The remaining companies each occupy a clear niche. No Nonsense, introduced by the Kayser-Roth Corporation in 1973, is a brand of women's legwear sold at food, drug, mass and club outlets, known for control top pantyhose and shaping hosiery. The Natori Company, founded in New York by Josie Natori, sells lingerie, sleepwear, loungewear, ready-to-wear and underwear to upscale department stores in the United States and to at least 15 countries internationally. No Fear, created in 1989 by Mark Simo and Brian Simo, is a lifestyle clothing brand that also offers energy drinks in a joint venture with Pepsi. Neighborhoodies is a Brooklyn-based independent manufacturer specialising in custom made apparel and one-at-a-time hand-stitched sweatshirts, while No Sweat Apparel retails union-made, sweatshop-free clothing, shoes and accessories, and Not of this World Apparel is a Christian based apparel company catering to younger generation customers.
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 record 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. Filing follows the company name as it is commonly known, so The Natori Company and The North Face appear under N for Natori and North, the words their customers actually search for.
An alphabetical index is worth keeping precisely because companies like these have so little in common. A dress factory that applied assembly line techniques to clothing manufacturing, a cap maker that changed the on-field baseball cap from wool to performance polyester in 2007, a legwear brand that introduced the first control top pantyhose in 1978, and a Brooklyn company publishing ten new readymade t-shirt designs each weekday would never appear together in a category directory, yet a reader who remembers only the first letter of a name can find any of them from this page in one click.
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 over time: they are acquired, renamed, relaunched or close, and brands pass between owners, as Nautica passed to VF Corporation and The North Face sits within the same group. A definition therefore records dated facts with their years, from founding dates to acquisitions and product launches, so the record stays useful and checkable even after the company itself has moved on.
The N list covers Nautica, Neighborhoodies, Nelly Don, New Era Cap Company, Nike, Inc., No Fear, No Nonsense, No Sweat Apparel, Not of this World Apparel, The Natori Company and The North Face. Each name links to that company's definition.
Each definition 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.