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Tommy Bahama is a Seattle-based manufacturer and licenser of high-end tropical-themed wear and other clothing and household goods, owned by Georgia-based Oxford Industries. The company sells apparel through its own chain of retail outlets in Canada and the United States and through other retailers, and operates cafes attached to some stores serving tropical themed food.
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The three chief brands marketed are Tommy Bahama, Island Estate, and Indigo Palms, the latter a more casual line of clothing, including camp shirts and jeans. While the store is known primarily as a clothing retailer, it also features shoes, furniture, candles, soaps and lotions, games, drinking glasses, and lighting. The company's line of fragrances and ancillary products were launched in 2005 by Gemini Cosmetics. All retail locations located outside of the US are run by licensed companies. For example, the Canadian facet of Tommy Bahama is managed by Jaytex Retail Corporation, based in Toronto.
Tommy Bahama launched its own line of rum in 2007. The line includes two varieties, "White Sand" a light rum and "Golden Sun" an aged, dark rum. Both 80-proof varieties are produced by R. L. Seale Distillery, which has been producing rum for more than 80 years in Barbados.
Cultural references
In 2007's The Simpsons Movie, when Homer arrives at Krusty Burger to bring Bart his clothes after he skateboards through town naked, Bart lets Homer know that he forgot his pants. Homer responds by sarcastically saying: "Who am I, Tommy Bahama?!"
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Tommy Bahama sells a complete island-resort wardrobe and the rooms to wear it in. The core is high-end tropical-themed clothing, and the three chief brands divide the offer: Tommy Bahama itself, Island Estate, and Indigo Palms, a more casual line that includes camp shirts and jeans. Camp shirts - loose, straight-hemmed shirts worn untucked - are the label's signature garment. Around the clothing sit shoes, furniture, candles, soaps and lotions, games, drinking glasses and lighting, so the brand operates as a lifestyle license across apparel and home goods rather than as a clothing line alone.
The retail model mixes channels. Tommy Bahama sells through its own chain of outlets in the United States and Canada and through other retailers, and some stores carry attached cafes serving tropical themed food; the company also opened a bar at Yankee Stadium. Stores outside the US are run by licensed companies - in Canada, by Jaytex Retail Corporation of Toronto - while the parent, Oxford Industries, is based in Georgia despite the brand's Seattle base.
Two extensions show how far a resort brand can travel. The line of fragrances and ancillary products launched in 2005 through Gemini Cosmetics. In 2007 Tommy Bahama launched its own line of rum: White Sand, a light rum, and Golden Sun, an aged dark rum, both 80-proof and produced by the R. L. Seale Distillery, which had been producing rum for more than 80 years in Barbados. A clothing company selling rum only makes sense when the product being sold is really a setting - the beach-house, end-of-day mood that the camp shirts also represent. The 2007 Simpsons Movie even used the name as a punchline about a man who never wears pants, evidence the brand had entered general culture as shorthand for resort dressing.
Tommy Bahama is owned by Georgia-based Oxford Industries. Retail locations outside the United States are run by licensed companies; the Canadian operation is managed by Jaytex Retail Corporation of Toronto.
The three chief brands marketed are Tommy Bahama, Island Estate, and Indigo Palms, the last a more casual line including camp shirts and jeans.
Alongside clothing and shoes, the company features furniture, candles, soaps and lotions, games, drinking glasses and lighting. Its fragrance line launched in 2005, and a rum line with White Sand and Golden Sun varieties launched in 2007.