Telme Clothing

In this section of the Apparel Search Directory, you will learn about Telme Clothing.

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The above definition about the clothing company Telme Clothing is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. The information source is from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and was originally obtained from the following page address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/telme_clothing.  The definition has been modified by the Apparel Search Company in June 2009.  The rest of this page and other pages on Apparel Search are NOT under the free document license.

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A Founder-Led New Jersey Apparel Company

Telme Clothing is recorded as a New Jersey-based apparel company, and its defining fact is its founder: the company was created by Kevin Shane. Founder-led labels of this kind are built around one person's taste and contacts rather than a corporate brand portfolio, and the definition preserves the two biographical facts documented for Shane - he is a graduate of Babson College and of The Peddie School. Babson is a business college, and a business-school background is a common thread among independent apparel founders, who have to handle sourcing, production and selling as one small operation.

New Jersey gives a small apparel company a practical base. The state sits next to New York City's garment district, so a New Jersey label can work with Manhattan showrooms, pattern makers and sample rooms while keeping its own base outside the city. Many small East Coast clothing companies operate exactly this way, designing and selling through the New York market without carrying New York overhead.

How to Read a Short Company Record

Some clothing companies leave a long public trail of stores, catalogs and press, and others - small, young or private-label operations - leave only a few lines. Telme's record is of the short kind: a name, a home state and a founder. That is still useful directory information. It tells a buyer or a researcher that Telme Clothing is a real, named apparel business based in New Jersey, distinct from the similarly spelled brands in other countries, and that Kevin Shane is the person behind it. Where a record is short, the definition stays with what is documented rather than padding the entry with claims the company itself never made.