"Striving to create the perfect collar in men's shirts has been an ongoing process since the manufacturing of tailored shirts began. The first innovation by Hathaway was the stiff detached collar. After men had fought in World War I, they wanted the ease of the softer attached collars that had been part of their uniforms. The problem with soft collars was keeping their points down. Hathaway introduced celluloid collar stays, but they were an unsatisfactory solution. In 1900 John Brooks, of rival Brook's Brothers, invented the button-down collar, a revolutionary development. In the years to come Hathaway would use an assortment of collar styles in its shirts: the London regular collar, the tab collar, and the London Cape collar, as well as the button-down."

The 'Hathaway man' is famous in advertising history. I use it when I do my lectures to colleges etc.
The story goes that the eye patch was a brainwave of advertising guru David Ogilvy, who thought it would be quirky and add interest to the shot.

These ads are still held up today as examples of successful advertising design.

the most prestigious department store of here, sadly deceased marshall fields, seems to have had all of their shirts done by hathaway as well.....which might be why/how they cornered the market here.

DO YOU DARE TO QUESTION WIKI, MORTAL????

And quite right too !

...   Oh I dunno.

I just google & crap falls out of my 'puter.


dirty dog

as to redwings theyre already starting to put the redwings label on various chinese boots. the USA made ones dont have a union label anymore....im guessing minor components are outsourced. that was always a big deal...theyd sell imports under "setters" or "worx" or "carhartt" but the wings were certified to be USA. not no more. the afl-cio is actually telling us to boycott them for this reason...a tactic which may speed their departure from these shores i think.