30 stores · curated ORBIS register
American jackets were workwear before they were fashion, and the makers on this plate kept that order. Filson cuts the original tin cloth outdoor gear from a Seattle outfitter founded in 1897. Spiewak builds the Titan parka from municipal-uniform outerwear heritage since 1904. Dehen 1920 knits varsity jackets in Portland with Japanese fabrics and made-in-USA construction. Hardware fails before cloth, so look at the zipper before the lining. Waxed cotton wants a fresh coat once a season; it repays the attention for decades.
Beacon Hill, Boston
Helen's Leather on Charles Street in Beacon Hill carries one of New England's largest selections of Western boots, alongside leather jackets, bags, belts and sandals. The family shop has fitted cowboy boots from established American bootmakers for decades.
Best for Western boots and leather goods
Chicago, USA
Chicago bootmaker founded 2010 by George Vlagos, operating out of the Independence menswear store he also owns, and known for boots and shoes built with Horween Chromexcel leather from the Chicago tannery.
Best for Trench boots, Horween leather
Oak Street Bootmakers was founded in 2010 in Chicago by George Vlagos, whose father immigrated from Greece and ran his own shoe-repair business. The company operates out of Independence, a Chicago menswear store also owned by Vlagos. Its signature material is Horween Chromexcel leather, sourced from the Horween Leather Company, a Chicago tannery founded in 1905 by Isadore Horween; Oak Street's finishing process is reported to run 89 separate steps over 28 days across all five floors of the Horween facility. The brand is built around classic American work- and dress-boot silhouettes made domestically rather than overseas.
Florence / Alabama / Online
Alabama-based designer — Southern gentility meets New York fashion week. The Bond Peacoat and low-country aesthetic. CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year.
Best for Southern American luxury
Jackson, Wyoming
Hide Out Leathers has traded on Jackson's town square for 45 years, making it the longest-standing retailer on the square, and is currently run by Jamie and Les Lavenstein. The store curates Western wear and leather goods, from motorcycle jackets to couture pieces, sourcing local-artist work alongside labels from around the world.
Best for Western leather jackets and accessories
Los Angeles, USA
Anine Bing builds women’s wardrobes around repeatable layers: blazers, denim, T-shirts, leather and accessories. The Los Angeles stores also offer in-person styling appointments, useful for comparing the recurring uniform pieces across seasons.
Best for Edgy womenswear
Los Angeles
Rogue Territory is LA’s stantons and supply jackets — Karl Thoennessen’s workwear of indie-denim benchmark status. The range centers on shirts; Field shirts, Japanese fabrics, with production associated with USA.
Best for Shirts; Field shirts, Japanese fabrics
Los Angeles
Since 1895, The Stronghold has sold selvedge denim, western hats, wax canvas jackets, Freenote Cloth, Alden shoes and heritage menswear from its Venice workshop, cutting and stitching garments in-house on vintage Union Special machines with copper rivets. Henry Fonda wore Stronghold bib-overalls as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath.
Best for Selvedge denim and heritage workwear
New York
Battenwear focuses on Shinya Hasegawa’s surf-mountain NYC, Board Shorts and Travel Shell parkas of weekend utopia.
Best for Vintage outdoor, Japanese fabric
New York
New York menswear artisans — soft-shoulder chore coats, chinos, custom suiting and factory-direct trouser programs.
Best for Knit polos, trousers, jackets
Epaulet Brand is a New York-based menswear specialist focused on tailored and artisanal clothing construction. The brand operates primarily as an e-commerce retailer offering both ready-to-wear in-stock items—chore coats, chinos, jeans, shirts, pants, bags and accessories—and custom clothing services for suits, sportcoats, trousers, overcoats and custom shirts produced through partnerships with manufacturers in the United States and Europe. Epaulet is particularly known for soft-shoulder construction techniques and use of premium cloth from suppliers like Loro Piana. The brand emphasizes quality craftsmanship and offers direct purchasing programs allowing customers to commission custom trousers and other tailored pieces. Epaulet positions itself within the contemporary menswear movement prioritizing construction quality and material selection over mass production.
New York / United States
Los Angeles denim and ready-to-wear label founded in 2008 by Jeff Rudes, previously a co-founder of J Brand, blending Californian ease with Parisian tailoring; grew from a denim line into full womenswear.
Best for LA-Parisian blazers, silk blouses, and jeans
L'AGENCE was founded in Los Angeles in 2008 by Jeff Rudes, who had already built the cult denim label J Brand in 2005 after decades in the denim business. With L'AGENCE, Rudes set out to marry the relaxed ease associated with California style with a more polished, Parisian sensibility. The brand's early identity was rooted in Hollywood, quickly picking up a following among celebrities and stylists, largely on the strength of its denim. It has since expanded well beyond jeans into a full ready-to-wear collection and become a regular presence at New York Fashion Week.
Online
New York leather-jacket maker founded in 1913 by brothers Irving and Jack Schott; Irving designed the belted, zip-front 'Perfecto' motorcycle jacket in 1928, and the company remains family-run today.
Best for The original 1913 Perfecto leather jacket, Brando-approved
Schott NYC (originally Schott Bros.) was founded in 1913 by Irving and Jack Schott, sons of a Russian immigrant, who opened a small cutting-and-sewing operation in the basement of a Lower East Side Manhattan tenement, initially making raincoats sold door-to-door by street peddlers. In 1928, Irving Schott designed what's widely credited as the first leather motorcycle jacket: a horsehide, double-breasted, belted design with a zippered front he named the 'Perfecto' after his favorite cigar brand. The asymmetric front zip created a windproof seal for riders and became the template still recognized today. The jacket's cultural profile grew through mid-century film, later cemented by Marlon Brando wearing one in 'The Wild One.' Schott is now in its third and fourth generation of family ownership, run by descendants including Jason Schott and David Colin. The company continues to manufacture in the United States and sells through schottnyc.com.
New York, USA
New York outerwear house founded in 1904 in Brooklyn by Polish immigrant Isaac Spiewak, who hand-sewed sheepskin vests sold on the Williamsburg docks; later outfitted NY State mounted troopers (1923) and NYC transit and postal uniforms.
Best for The Titan parka and municipal-uniform outerwear heritage since 1904
Isaac Spiewak grew up in Warsaw and fled to the United States in 1903. Settling in Brooklyn, he began making sheepskin vests by hand and selling them on the docks of Williamsburg starting in 1904 - the year the company now dates itself to. Demand grew quickly enough that by 1906 he had established a small dedicated manufacturing space in Brooklyn, which he named the "House of the Golden Fleece."
The company moved from workwear into uniform contracts over the following decades. In 1923, Spiewak supplied its first police jackets, outfitting New York State's mounted troopers - an early entry into the municipal-uniform business that became a core part of the company's identity. It later expanded that uniform relationship to New York City's MTA subway conductors and United States Postal Service letter carriers.
In the early 1960s, Marty Spiewak developed a heavy-duty material the company branded Titan Cloth, originally engineered for truck seat covers rather than garments; it was later adapted into the Titan outerwear line that remains one of the brand's signature products. The company today also produces other named product lines, including VizGuard safety wear, WeatherTech waterproof-breathable outerwear, and Golden Fleece industrial outerwear, tracing a continuous line from Isaac Spiewak's hand-sewn dockside vests to a multi-generation uniform and outerwear manufacturer.
New York, USA
Theory builds streamlined workwear around precise trousers, jackets, shirts and knitwear in technical or stretch fabrics. Consistent fits and neutral palettes help shoppers replace wardrobe staples across seasons.
Best for Elevated basics
New York
Veronica Beard builds polished American womenswear around blazers, dresses, denim and the interchangeable Dickey Jacket system. The removable inserts let one jacket shift in colour, texture and season.
Best for The Dickey Jacket — polished-cool New York blazers
Downtown
Columbia Sportswear's flagship store in downtown Portland, Oregon, at 911 SW Broadway - the outdoor-apparel company's home city and largest branded retail location.
Best for Outdoor jackets and sportswear
Columbia Sportswear operates its flagship retail store at 911 SW Broadway in downtown Portland, Oregon - the company's home city, where it has been headquartered since Columbia's founding as a small hat distributor in 1938 (later grown by the Boyle family, notably Gert Boyle, into a major outdoor-apparel brand). The Broadway flagship carries the company's outerwear, sportswear, footwear, and accessories lines for men, women, and children, positioned in the city's historic downtown retail district. It is distinct from the separate Columbia Sportswear Company Employee Store, also located in Portland, which operates as a discount outlet for employees rather than a public flagship.
Portland / USA
Not Japanese but relevant — the Portland knitter that uses Japanese fabrics, the varsity jacket specialists, and the American brand that demonstrates Japanese textile prestige transcends denim.
Best for Portland knitter, Japanese fabrics, varsity, textile prestige.
Downtown Sausalito
Pegasus Leather has sold leather jackets in downtown Sausalito since 1968. Owner Charlie Hontalas stocks the shop's own Pegasus Leather label alongside Remy Leather, Continental Leather, Zini, Sven and Love Melody Leather, all made in California. Men's and women's jackets anchor the range, and the shop also carries jewelry and shoes.
Best for Leather jackets & goods
Seattle, USA
The down jacket’s inventor — the 1936 Skyliner born after Bauer nearly froze on a fishing trip.
Best for Outdoor, Down Jackets
Seattle / Washington / Online
Seattle outdoor outfitter founded in 1897, known for tin cloth, Mackinaw wool and the long-running “Might as Well Have the Best” brand motto. The Cruiser jacket remains a signature product.
Best for The original tin cloth outdoor gear
Seattle–Tokyo / Online
Hemp and eco-fabric outdoor label founded 1993 in Seattle by Robert Jungmann, named for the Manastash Ridge in the Cascades; its Kurtigan jacket was worn onstage by Kurt Cobain. Now designed in Tokyo under Japan's TSI Holdings.
Best for Hemp outdoor gear
Manastash was founded in Seattle in 1993 by Robert Jungmann, who set out to use hemp fabric to reduce fashion's reliance on deforestation-linked materials. The name comes from the Manastash Ridge/Plateau in Washington's Cascade Range. Its Kurtigan jacket became notable after Kurt Cobain wore it on stage. Jungmann later sold the company, and Manastash has been based in Japan since 2005, with collections now designed in Tokyo under the Japanese conglomerate TSI Holdings, blending technical outdoor fabrics with a street-influenced aesthetic.
East Village
At the Gallery of Wearable Art, Christopher and Dinah Lee design and sew hand-printed silk jackets, kimonos, shawls and painted denim on site in Cambria's East Village. All of the Lees' pieces are made in California and shown beside labels such as Marushka and Desigual.
Best for Hand-printed silk and painted-denim wearable art
Deadwood, South Dakota, USA
Hide and Soul Leatherworks is a family shop on Highway 385 south of Deadwood where Rick and Jennifer have hand-cut vests, jackets, chaps, belts and holsters since 1983. Every piece is made in-house from deer, elk and bison hides.
Best for Custom handmade leather apparel
Wisconsin, USA
Lands' End focuses on Wisconsin catalog dependability, squall jackets and turtlenecks of sensible American comfort. Production is associated with USA, while the range centers on casual, Outerwear.
Best for Casual, Outerwear
Main Street
At 20 Main Street, Nell is a women's clothing and home-goods boutique carrying dresses, knitwear and jackets alongside jewelry, handbags, decor and stationery. It stays open through the shoulder seasons, serving locals as well as summer visitors.
Best for Dresses, knitwear, and jackets alongside jewelry and home decor at 20 Main
Vermont, USA
Vermont’s 1856 outfitter — fly rods, field jackets and dog beds of sporting-life tradition.
Best for Fly fishing, outdoor
California, USA
The most responsible outdoor brand on earth — 'We're in business to save our home planet.' B Corp, 1% for the Planet, and lifetime repairs. The Nano Puff and Better Sweater are icons.
Best for Outdoor jackets, repaired gear and Worn Wear resale
USA
Rowing Blazers reworks collegiate prep through rugby shirts, colourful tailoring, knitwear and archival sports references. Collaborations and revived motifs add humour, while core pieces remain wearable as conventional casual clothing.
Best for Croquet stripes, rugby shirts and the Princess Diana sheep sweater revival
USA
The shrunken grey suit that rewired American tailoring — four white bars, cricket blazers and rigorous uniform-dressing from New York’s most exacting showman.
Best for Immaculate tailoring with subversive proportions.
Thom Browne shrank the American suit and changed how a generation dresses. The New Yorker — a Notre Dame swimmer, briefly an actor, self-taught in tailoring — opened by appointment in 2001 with one offering: the grey two-button suit cut short and slim, ankles bared, proportions that read as provocation and became prophecy. The four white bars on the left sleeve and the red-white-blue grosgrain ribbon are now among fashion's most protected marks — as Adidas learned in court.
The runway is his second medium: shows staged as surrealist school assemblies, hospital wards, gardens of men in skirts — Browne has done more than anyone to normalize the male skirt at luxury scale — all executed with cricket-club politeness. The seersucker, the cardigans, the pebble-grain Mr. Thom bag extend a single uniform philosophy: repetition as radicalism.
Zegna Group holds a majority stake since 2018; Browne chairs the CFDA. The proposition never wavered — dress exactly the same every day, and let the tailoring be the argument.
Deadwood, South Dakota, USA
Trevinos Leathers has crafted and sold leather goods since 1974, moving from Sturgis to its longtime spot on Highway 385 south of Deadwood. The shop carries handmade American-made gloves, jackets, chaps, vests, hats and wallets alongside furs, knives and Western artwork.
Best for Handmade Western leather goods
312 E. Main Street, Ennis, MT
Willie and Robin Blazer opened Willie's Distillery at 312 East Main Street in Ennis in December 2012, after founding the business in 2010. Grain is milled and mashed on site, then fermented and run through a Bavarian Holstein copper still. Bottles are filled and corked by hand. The tasting room doubles as a room of military and firefighting memorabilia that the family calls the museum.
Best for Montana-made whiskey, moonshine and liqueurs
Willie's Distillery occupies a building at 312 East Main Street in Ennis, a town of about a thousand people in southwestern Montana. Willie Blazer comes from western North Carolina, in Appalachian moonshine country. He is a veteran of the United States Armed Forces and the Forest Service, having served as an Army Ranger and a Special Forces medic, then as a hotshot wildland firefighter and a smokejumper. His wife Robin is a fourth generation Montanan from a wheat farm near Toston. The couple describe the start as his moonshine paired with her knowledge of grain. They founded the business in 2010, and planning and financing and equipment took more than three years. The doors opened in December 2012 with moonshine as the first bottling. The still is a German Bavarian Holstein copper pot with a two-story column and condenser. It stands beside a 400-gallon mash tun and two stainless elliptical fermenters, visible through windows fronting the street. The woodwork and rafters of the building are about 120 years old. Grain is milled and mashed on site before fermentation and distillation, and the spirits are bottled and corked and packed by hand. Bighorn Bourbon followed the early moonshine. The tasting room doubles as a room for live music and community events.
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