An American clothing brand founded in 1990 in Reading, Pennsylvania by Bill Thomas, who started the company with a small loan from his mother after finding a pair of WWII-era khakis at an army surplus store near his college and deciding nothing since compared. He built the brand directly off the original military pattern (the same 8.5oz cotton twill, cut full, with the same 14-inch drill-cloth pocket) rather than modernizing it. Everything is still made in American factories, some still run by Amish craftsmen.