Williamson-Dickie (Dickies)
Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Company is the Fort Worth, Texas workwear maker founded in 1922 - the company behind Dickies, the world's best-known work apparel brand, owned since November 2025 by Bluestar Alliance.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - the Dickies workwear brand sells in more than 100 countries, owned since November 2025 by Bluestar Alliance
- Type
- Brand company - Williamson-Dickie Mfg. Co., a subsidiary of Bluestar Alliance LLC since the sale completed November 12, 2025 (previously of VF Corporation, 2017-2025)
- Headquarters
- Founded and long headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas; the Dickies brand headquarters moved to Costa Mesa, California in 2025
- Founded
- 1922, in Fort Worth, Texas, by C. N. Williamson and E. E. 'Colonel' Dickie
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Company Profile
Dickies today is a Bluestar Alliance brand: VF Corporation, which had owned Williamson-Dickie since 2017, completed the sale on November 12, 2025 for $600 million in cash. The workwear itself is unchanged in its essentials - work pants led by the 874, work shirts, coveralls, jeans and women's workwear, sold in more than 100 countries to working customers and to the skaters and stylists who adopted the 874 along the way - and the Dickies business-to-business uniform operation is linked from this page. The company's own long narrative, from the 1918 U.S. Overall Company through wartime uniform production to the world market, is kept in full on the history page linked below. The shop box covers Dickies workwear, which both marketplaces carry.
C.N. Williamson and E.E. 'Colonel' Dickie began their business careers in the 'vehicle and harness' business in Bryan, Texas. In 1918 they made what turned out to be a momentous decision when they and a few friends established the U.S. Overall Company. Then, in 1922, C. Don Williamson joined with his father and cousin to buy 100% of the overall company on a one-third-each basis and renamed it Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Company.
The brand's own pages in this directory sit alongside this company profile: the Dickies brand page in the brands guide, the Dickies definitions, and the men's workwear guide linked from this profile cover the garments themselves.
Williamson-Dickie History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Williamson-Dickie History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
Who owns Dickies now?
Bluestar Alliance LLC, the New York brand management firm. VF Corporation - which had bought Williamson-Dickie in 2017 for $820 million in cash - completed the sale of the Dickies brand to Bluestar on November 12, 2025, for $600 million in cash, under an agreement announced September 15, 2025.
When was Williamson-Dickie founded?
In 1922 in Fort Worth, Texas, when C.N. Williamson, his son C. Don Williamson and their cousin E.E. 'Colonel' Dickie bought out the U.S. Overall Company the family had helped establish in 1918 and renamed it the Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Company. It began as a denim bib overall company selling workwear to farm and ranch hands around the Southwest.
What does Dickies make?
Workwear first: work pants - including the 874, in production since 1967 - work shirts, coveralls, chore coats, denim jeans and women's workwear, sold in more than 100 countries to the automotive, hospitality, construction and medical industries among others, plus a Dickies business-to-business uniform operation linked from this page.
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