American knitwear keeps wool history beside Ivy mischief in the same drawer, trade blankets folded next to croquet stripes. Pendleton has told Oregon wool stories since 1863 with Native American trade blankets. Rowing Blazers revives croquet stripes and the Princess Diana sheep sweater. R Derwin Clothiers outfits its town in Scottish and Italian cashmere sweaters. Fold knits flat in a drawer: a hanger stretches the shoulders by spring, while the trade blanket was never meant to hang at all.
Founded in 2002 by Christopher LaPolice and Rea Laccone as a Los Angeles cashmere-sweater label; opened its first retail store on Robertson Boulevard in 2008, added menswear in 2007, and listed on the NYSE in 2013.
Best for Effortless luxury
Vince was founded in 2002 by Christopher LaPolice and Rea Laccone, who set up a design atelier in Los Angeles built around cashmere sweaters intended as understated, everyday luxury staples rather than statement pieces. The cashmere line proved successful quickly, and the brand expanded into denim for both men and women. Vince introduced a dedicated menswear collection in the fall of 2007, and in spring 2008 opened its first freestanding retail store, on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles, translating a wholesale label into a store-based brand. The company grew enough over the following years to file for an initial public offering with the SEC in July 2013, seeking up to $200 million; it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker VNCE on 22 November 2013. Ownership has since changed hands: in 2023, Authentic Brands Group acquired Vince's intellectual property in a deal valued at $76.5 million, folding the label into its broader portfolio of licensed fashion brands while Vince continued operating its stores and product lines under the same name.
Corridor is the independent New York label Dan Snyder started in 2013 while sewing in the Garment District. It makes original textiles and clothing shaped by folk Americana, produced with family-run workshops, and covers shirts, knitwear, outerwear, footwear. Four shops trade in New York, including 245 Elizabeth Street in Nolita, with three more in Los Angeles. Design stays in Brooklyn, where the brand is based.
Best for Original textiles, shirts and knitwear designed in Brooklyn
Corridor began in 2013, when Dan Snyder was sewing in the Garment District and working out of a walk-up apartment in the East Village. The name comes from the Northeast Corridor bus line he rode at the time. The label describes itself as Brooklyn based and independent, drawing on folk Americana, and it makes original textiles rather than buying finished cloth. Production runs through family-run workshops in several countries, which the brand names as a deliberate choice rather than a sourcing note. The collection covers shirts, knitwear, outerwear, sweats, trousers, footwear. Accessories and a small homeware line sit alongside. Corridor also keeps a bookshelf section, which reads as an extension of the same interests in art and music. Seven shops are listed. Four sit in New York, at 245 Elizabeth Street in Nolita, 165 Dekalb Avenue in Fort Greene, 322 Bleecker Street in the West Village and 145 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. Three more are in Los Angeles, on North Larchmont Boulevard, California Avenue in Venice and Echo Park Avenue. Appointments can be booked at each address, and the brand still lists its design work as happening in Brooklyn.
Faherty is a clothing brand founded by twin brothers Mike and Alex Faherty, whose beach upbringing informs its casual style. The range includes shirts and knitwear alongside trousers and dresses, with accessories available for women and men. Its website also describes collaborations with Native designers, which should be distinguished from the wider clothing collection.
Best for Casual clothing and beach-influenced everyday layers
Faherty is a family-owned clothing brand established in 2013. Its official story presents the business through casual clothing for adults and children, supported by swim and accessories plus a home-goods line. Several programmes give the assortment a wider structure. Native Designed identifies collaborations with Native artists, while Second Wave Resale keeps existing Faherty pieces in circulation. The company also maintains partnership and sustainability alongside social-impact sections that sit beside its product catalogue. Clothing is organized around recurring wardrobe categories such as shirts and knitwear as well as trousers. Dresses and outerwear complete the wardrobe. Named groups including the Western Collection, Rugged Ivy Collection and Reserve Collection provide a more specific design direction within that everyday framework. Stretch Terry and movement-oriented shirts emphasize comfort and repeated wear rather than formal novelty. These facts make the brand's position legible: it builds a broad casual wardrobe, then uses partnerships and resale to add authorship and a second life to selected pieces. The family ownership and 2013 starting point provide the business context, while the named collections and programmes show how Faherty differentiates its clothing from a generic multi-category apparel offer.
Ivy League clothier founded in 1902 near Yale's campus by Jacobi Press, credited with popularizing the natural-shoulder 'sack suit' and Shaggy Dog shetland sweater. NYC flagship sits by the Yale Club at 51 E 44th St; second shop at 501 Madison Ave.
Best for True Ivy oxford shirts.
J. Press was founded in 1902 in New Haven, Connecticut, by Jacobi Press, a Latvian immigrant who partnered with local tailor Herman Goldbaum to open a shop serving Yale's undergraduates. The company became closely associated with the 'Ivy League look' - natural-shoulder, undarted sack suits, Harris Tweed jackets, flap-pocket oxford shirts, and reversible balmacaan coats. By the 1920s the shop's reputation extended to cultural figures including Cary Grant and Duke Ellington. J. Press also built a second life in Japan: its clothing appeared in the 1965 photo book 'Take Ivy,' fueling a decades-long 'Ametora' fashion obsession there. In New York, the brand's flagship operates at 51 East 44th Street, across from Grand Central Terminal, with a second shop at 501 Madison Avenue.
Denim brand founded in Brooklyn in 1998 by Christian McCann; opened its first storefront in 2013 in a former Ridgewood, Queens sweater factory; makes 100%-American-made selvedge denim from US, Japanese and Italian fabric.
Best for NYC workwear, Cone Mills
Left Field NYC was created by Christian McCann, who grew up in Philadelphia developing an interest in American vintage through flea markets and thrift stores before working briefly at Anthropologie and then moving to Brooklyn. He founded the brand there in 1998, building it initially as a design and production operation without a retail storefront. Fifteen years later, in 2013, McCann opened Left Field's first physical shop in an old sweater factory in Ridgewood, Queens. The label is known for raw selvedge denim and workwear made entirely in the United States: McCann keeps manufacturing domestic and sources fabric from mills in the US, Japan and Italy rather than importing finished goods. It is frequently cited in menswear and denim press as one of the earlier independent labels in the American-made denim revival that took hold in the 2000s and 2010s.
A New York label cut in Peruvian pima: polos and knitwear under the skull-rabbit mark.
Best for Pima-cotton polos and knitwear carrying the skull-rabbit emblem
Psycho Bunny grew from its skull-and-crossbones rabbit emblem into a full menswear and childrenswear business whose signature remains the brightly coloured polo. The house’s current supply-chain reporting says its Pima cotton is sourced primarily from Peru and that most of its signature cotton polos and shirts are manufactured there, with third-party social-compliance audits across the supplier network. That production story gives the familiar logo product a more useful point of comparison: fabric, colour and construction matter as much as the irreverent mark.
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.
Northwest Arch Ease — custom made-to-order, the 350 Cruiser, and the Spokane bootmaker that represents the pinnacle of American boot craft for denim wearers.
Best for Northwest Arch Ease, 350 Cruiser, custom made-to-order, pinnacle. Smokejumper fire boots.
A cooperative gallery on Main Street in Manchester Center, staffed by the very Vermont artisans whose work fills it, from raku bowls and blown glass to handknit cardigans and carved wood. Walk in most any day and one of the makers is on hand to talk through their process and sell you the piece.
Best for Artisan-gallery, woodwork, pottery, glass, jewelry, textiles
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
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
American men's and women's sportswear house founded in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2001, known for cashmere sweaters and performance golf polos; now owned by Richemont.
Best for Premium polos, soft cotton
Peter Millar was founded in 2001 in Raleigh, North Carolina, by Chris Knott, Greg Oakley and Chet Sikorski, reportedly starting with a single cashmere sweater. The brand name comes from a vintage lawn-bowling ball inscription Knott found. In 2005, Scott Mahoney and Sea Island Company acquired the label; the company built its reputation on cashmere knitwear, performance golf shirts and sport coats. Peter Millar is now a subsidiary of Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA, the Swiss luxury group.
Spanish digital-native fashion brand founded 2012 in Alicante by Israel Vives and Rafael Tormo (also behind Hawkers eyewear); sells classic-style polos, knitwear and casualwear mainly online, and is B Corp-certified.
Best for Polo lifestyle
The Polo Club at poloclub.com is a Spanish fashion company founded in 2012 by Israel Vives and Rafael Tormo - the same team behind the sunglasses brand Hawkers - and based in Alicante. It positions itself as reinventing classic wardrobe staples: polo shirts, t-shirts, shirts, sweaters, jackets, and accessories for men, women and children. The company sells primarily through its own e-commerce platform rather than physical stores, operates a loyalty program, and describes itself as a certified B Corp with a dedicated sustainability program. It has grown into a team of more than 80 people.
This West Street clothier has outfitted the town in Scottish and Italian cashmere, tailored sportswear, and designer apparel for decades, functioning as Litchfield's independent alternative to a mall menswear shop. It remains locally owned and operated out of its original West Street storefront.
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