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The International Watch Company, founded by American engineer Florentine Ariosto Jones in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1868, produced its first purpose-built pilot's watch in 1936 — the Special Pilot's Watch with a rotating bezel and antimagnetic inner case.
Daniel Hurst · 2026-07-06
The Loro Piana family has been trading in wool since the early nineteenth century in Trivero, a small town in the Biellese Alps of northern Italy's Piedmont region.
William Ashford · 2026-07-05
In 1964, the Beatles arrived in India to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and the photographs of four mop-topped Liverpudlians wearing mandarin-collared Indian jackets sent a fashion tremor through the Western world.
Marcus Wei · 2026-07-05
Harris Tweed is the only commercially produced fabric in the world protected by an Act of the British Parliament.
Sebastian Cole · 2026-07-05
Alden Shoe Company, founded in Middleborough, Massachusetts, in 1884, occupies a peculiar position in American menswear: universally revered by those who know, virtually unknown to those who do not.
Sebastian Cole · 2026-07-05
The cardigan takes its name from James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, who led the catastrophic Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854.
Oliver Ramsey · 2026-07-05
When Pierce Brosnan stepped onto the screen as James Bond in GoldenEye in 1995, he wore suits by a variety of Italian tailors.
Thomas Nakamura · 2026-07-05
Seersucker — from the Persian shir o shakkar, meaning milk and sugar, describing the fabric's alternating smooth and puckered stripes — arrived in the American South via the British colonial trade routes of the eighteenth century.
Thomas Nakamura · 2026-07-05
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On July 21, 1969, Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface wearing an Omega Speedmaster Professional reference ST 105.
Oliver Ramsey · 2026-07-05
Turnbull & Asser has occupied 71-72 Jermyn Street in London's St James's since 1885, making shirts for a clientele that has included Winston Churchill, Prince Charles, and every actor to portray James Bond from Roger Moore onward.
Catherine Avery · 2026-07-05
The beret's origins are so ancient that establishing a definitive starting point is impossible, but archaeological evidence of beret-like headwear appears in Bronze Age petroglyphs in the Italian and French Alps dating to approximately 3000 BCE.
William Ashford · 2026-07-05
Louis Cartier designed the Tank watch in 1917 after observing Renault FT tanks on the Western Front.
William Ashford · 2026-07-05
When Henry Sands Brooks opened his clothing emporium at the corner of Catherine and Cherry Streets in lower Manhattan in 1818, he could not have imagined that his family name would become synonymous with American dress for the next two centuries.
Sebastian Cole · 2026-07-04
Thomas Burberry was twenty-one years old in 1856 when he opened a small draper's shop in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Catherine Avery · 2026-07-04
The Rolex Submariner, reference 6204, debuted at the Basel Watch Fair in 1953 as a professional diving instrument rated to one hundred metres.
Catherine Avery · 2026-07-04
On May 20, 1873, Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss received United States patent number 139,121 for the process of riveting pocket seams on work trousers.
Marcus Wei · 2026-07-04
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Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifshitz in the Bronx in 1939, the son of Belarusian Jewish immigrants.
Thomas Nakamura · 2026-07-04
The precise origin of the tuxedo is disputed with the ferocity that only sartorial historians can muster, but the most widely accepted account places its public debut at the Tuxedo Park Club in Orange County, New York, in October 1886, when tobacco heir Griswold Lorillard's son and his friends appeared at the autumn ball wearing tailless dinner jackets instead of the full-length evening tailcoats that protocol demanded.
James Alderton · 2026-07-04
John Barbour established his oilskin outfitting company in South Shields, England, in 1894, supplying waterproof clothing to North Sea fishermen, dockworkers, and submariners who needed protection from brutal maritime conditions.
Daniel Hurst · 2026-07-04
When the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk in 1903, their open-cockpit aircraft exposed pilots to wind, rain, and temperatures that dropped approximately two degrees Celsius for every three hundred metres of altitude gained.
Oliver Ramsey · 2026-07-04