Untold Stories of Rare Workwear Brands (E-book / Digital only)
This e-book, written by Eric Maggiori and Ricci Lau, focuses on the stories of 20 Rare Workwear Brands.
No, American workwear is not only Levi's, Lee, Wrangler or Carhartt. Since the Gold Rush, there have been hundreds of companies in the United States that have founded their own workwear brand. Indeed, it was necessary to dress the workingmen, miners and railroad engineers who came to try their luck in America.
Thus, many immigrants, especially Jews from Germany or Eastern Europe, started in the dry goods, clothing, and workwear business, often making way more money than the workers themselves.
Today, these disappeared brands are only known by American workwear collectors and vintage clothing dealers. But very few know their history and the journey of their founders.
Here are the exclusive stories of twenty workwear brands whose names may be familiar to you, but of which you know barely nothing so far :
- Auto-Brand (Lewis Meier & Co)
- Bell & Fawn Brand (Kingsbery Mfg. Co.)
- Big Five (Shull-Day Co.)
- Bull Dog (Smith-McCord-Townsend Dry Goods Co.)
- Diamond (Daniel Miller & Co.)
- Howard (The Frank Howard fg. Co.)
- Hunter Brand (Richardson Dry Goods Co.)
- Klemm (C.W. Klemm Shirts & Overalls)
- Magnet Brand (Norton Bros & Morris)
- Mountaineer (Zion Co-Operative Mercantile Institution)
- Never Wear Out (Ehrmann Mfg. Co.)
- Panama (Kahn Mfg. Co.)
- Peabody (Peabody Overall Co.)
- Rip-Proof (Spokane Dry Goods Co.)
- Samson (Star Clothing Mfg. Co.)
- The Boss (Cohn-Goldwater Mfg. Co.)
- Underhill (Underhill Mfg. Co.)
- Weinstein’s (Wm Weinstein & Co.)
- White Elephant (Bell, Rider & Wallis Co.)
- Wichita (Great Western Garment Co.)
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