It wouldn’t be wrong to say that half of the men’s wear won’t be in the market if not for PVH. Many brands such as Van Heusen, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Arrow, Warner’s, True & Co., Perry Ellis, Michael Kors and Geoffrey Beene come from the house of PVH.
In 1881, Moses Phillips and his family started sewing woollen shirts to sell to miners of Pennsylvania under the name M. Phillips & Sons. Around the same time, Dramin Jones, a Prussian immigrant founded a shirt manufacturing company known as D. Jones & Sons. D. Jones & Sons merged with M. Phillips & Sons in 1907 under the name Phillips-Jones.
Phillips-Jones was in search of a durable collar. Their improvisations ended in the making of a self-foldable collar for which they received a patent in 1919. The first collar-attached shirt was introduced in 1929 and people liked it.
The meeting between Isaac Phillips and John Van Heusen began a fresh chapter in their history that resulted in their most popular line of shirts- Van Heusen. The company was later renamed as Phillips-Van Heusen in 1957 and PVH in 2011.
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