Apparel Companies V

One Letter, One Big Family Tree

Much of this letter belongs to a single family tree. VF Corporation - founded in 1899 and now based in Denver - is the parent of Vans, the page skate shoe maker of 1966, and was long also the home of VF Imagewear, its uniform and workwear arm, and VF Outlets, the Reading, Pennsylvania stores that effectively invented the outlet mall in 1970. The Imagewear and Outlet stories have since moved on - to Workwear Outfitters and to Kontoor Brands - and each profile here tells its company's story as it stands now, with the earlier record kept on linked history pages where the record is substantial.

Beyond the VF family stand two very different retail names. Victoria's Secret, founded in 1977, is the intimate apparel and beauty retailer run by Victoria's Secret & Co., and its Victoria's Secret Fashion Show - first staged in 1995, cancelled in 2019 and revived in 2024 - has its own page as a company event. Von Maur, family-owned in Davenport, Iowa since 1872, is the traditional department store of the group, known for service touches from interest-free charge accounts to in-store pianists.

Using This Directory

Each company name below opens a profile with a verified company snapshot and an official-website button where the company operates today; companies whose record is substantial also link to a separate history page carrying the fuller earlier descriptions and photographs. Use the letter bar to move through the full A-Z company index, or the chips below to jump straight to a V topic.