• American Giant: Bayard Winthrop

  • Jul 1 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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American Giant: Bayard Winthrop

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  • Bayard Winthrop founded American Giant in 2011 with the simple idea to sell clothes made entirely in America at a time when most apparel manufacturing had moved overseas. The first struggle was finding all the components—the cotton, the buttons, the zippers, the rivets; the next was finding people to actually do the work—the dying, the napping, the sewing and the finishing. Once Bayard did all that he ended up with his first product, a plain hooded sweatshirt. But soon after a viral article proclaimed it “the greatest hoodie ever made” Bayard faced a backlog of orders that took him almost three years to fulfill. Today, American Giant has expanded their line to include all the basics: t-shirts, denim, flannel, and accessories, still entirely produced in the U.S.


    This episode was produced by J.C. Howard, with music by Ramtin Arablouei

    Edited by Casey Herman, with research help from Katherine Sypher.


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