Phillips Van Heusen
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In 1881, Moses Phillips and his wife Endel began sewing shirts by hand and sold them from pushcarts to local Pottsville, Pennsylvania coal miners. This grew into a shirt business in New York City that placed one of the first ever shirt ads in the Saturday Evening Post. Seymour Phillips, Moses' son, joined with John Van Heusen in 1919 to establish an outlet for Van Heusen products in the U.S.
In 1921, Van Heusen launched in the U.S. with "The Original Semi-Stiff Collar", patented by John Manning Van Heusen, and was the first to develop a process for weaving fabric on a curve in a continuous strip. By 1974, Van Heusen was awarded the Royal Warrant as Shirtmakers to Queen Elizabeth II.
By the 21st century, Phillips Van Heusen controlled the manufacture and distribution of clothing from brands such as Calvin Klein, Izod, and Bass.
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