Men’s Mackinaw Cruiser Jacket (1922)

Men’s ‘503’ Hunting Coat & Pants The Pennsylvania Tuxedo (1930)

Skyliner Jacket (1940)

60-40 Mountain Parka (1968)

Banana Equipment Parka with GORE-TEX® Fabric (1977

Men’s Golden Mantle Jacket (1978)

Brown Duck Arctic Coat 

Extended Length Ski Jacket

Bugaboo™ Parka (1988)

Brown Duck Arctic Coat 

Glacier Jacket (1991)

Patagonia Synchilla Fleece Jacket—100% recycled polyester (1993)

Alpha SV (1998)

Women’s Valkyrie Ski Jacket & Pants (1999)

Men’s Mackinaw Cruiser Jacket (1922)
It was 1912, and C.C. Filson was operating a Seattle, Washington store—Filson’s Pioneer Alaska and Blanket Manufacturers—opened in 1897 in order to supply hordes of prospectors headed to the Yukon Gold Rush.

As the Gold Rush died down, Filson found that there were many more customers in need of rugged outdoor clothing and gear. So he designed a shirt that would meet the current and unforeseen needs of his customers. He applied for a patent in 1912 based on a shirt design that contained many unique and innovative features—all of them based on simplicity and functionality in the outdoors.

Filson was awarded a patent for his Cruiser Shirt design in 1914. Originally made in Tin Cloth and Mackinaw Wool, the shirt soon evolved in both fabric and functional design throughout the years in order to serve the needs of timber cruisers, dam builders and miners—the men and women shaping the future of the Pacific Northwest through muscle and sheer force of will. 

Men’s ‘503’ Hunting Coat & Pants The Pennsylvania Tuxedo (1930)

Woolrich & Company was founded in 1830 in what would become Woolrich, Pennsylvania. It has produced woolen goods for over 175 years, including the heavy weight red and black plaid fabric, known by Woolrich as the "classic" hunting plaid, famously worn by Sid Caesar (known for his sharp wits and fashion).

Red has been used since the 19th century for hunting jackets, and plaid is also synonymous with outdoors wear. The wool field coat and pants have been produced by Woolrich for most of its years in business, and are executed with the warmth and comfort of the hunter in mind. Besides the inherent warmth of the wool and its ability to wick away moisture, both pieces are outfitted with special details, like the "storm flap" which covers the button closure on the coat and protects the wearer from the elements seeping in between the holes, as well as the neck tab which keeps the collar up to warm the neck and face.

The double seat and knees of the pants provides the extra support required for the sport, and the knit bands at the hem are a custom touch, allowing for boots to be comfortably worn over the pants. The coordinating plaid coat and pants, coined the "Pennsylvania tuxedo" by Woolrich, while being completely functional, is also rather fashionable.

Skyliner Jacket (1940)

Introduced in 1936 as the “Blizzard Proof Jacket,” the Skyliner was patented in 1940 and became the first down jacket to be patented in the U.S. This groundbreaking jacket was developed by the brands eponymous founder after suffering hypothermia on a winter fishing trip—quickly establishing the Eddie Bauer name as a dynamo among outerwear companies.

The Skyliner was sold continuously for more than 50 years and remained virtually unchanged save for the collar which was sometimes knit or otherwise self-fabric point—with early catalogs giving customers a choice between the two.

Two other early attributes that were later dropped were snaps at the back of the neck to attach an optional, down-insulated hood; and a zipper along the bottom of the hem. This allowed the addition of an optional, 8-inch down-insulated extension that converted the waist-length Skyliner into a parka. 

60-40 Mountain Parka (1968)

George R. Marks was co-founder of Sierra Designs in 1965 along with Bob Swanson, (1933-2016), and later of The Walrus Tent Company. With a career spanning five decades, Bob was known as the greatest innovator and contributor of outdoor products to the industry. With his passing in August of 2016, he shall be remembered for his abundant legacy among which is the Sierra Designs 60/40 Mountain Parka.

For the first six months they worked like endlessly, developing one product after the other. This included a full line of sleeping bags, tents, packs, garments and a range of small accessories. The first mountain parka, made with Reevair fabric, was one for wind and rain as suggested by The North Face who was the company’s first retail client. The 60/40 came to be after Bob ordered new fabrics from the Arthur Kahn Company – rounding the composition of the cotton/nylon blend to 60/40.

Banana Equipment Parka with GORE-TEX® Fabric (1977)

Early, first generation Banana Equipment size large Gore-Tex® parka. The jacket is constructed of a dark green Taslanized nylon Gore-Tex® 3-layer laminate with a partial bright green taffeta interior drop lining in the hood and sides

The now defunct Banana Equipment out of Estes Park, Colorado was one of the earliest adopters of GORE-TEX® Fabrics after the material hit the market in 1976. With their pun of a tagline, “Products with A Peel,” Banana Equipment was a small, yet prolific, company that specialized in shell garments. Like other small early adopters, Banana Equipment devoted a significant amount of space in their catalogs to describing the science behind GORE-TEX® Laminates, as a way to educate their consumers and illustrate how this new material could claim to offer “the contradicting features of waterproofness and breathability,” actually citing a scientific paper produced by Gore.

Men’s Golden Mantle Jacket (1978)

In 1978, Marmot introduced the Golden Mantle jacket—it’s first jacket to feature Gore-Tex.

Marmot co-founder, Eric Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W.L. Gore & Assoc., Inc. in Elkton, Maryland in 1976. Eric was one of the first in the US to see a new concept in outdoor performance fabrication: Gore-Tex. He was intrigued and, within a couple weeks, had sewn prototype sleeping bags in the new Gore-Tex fabric for field testing. He and co-founder Dave Huntley proceeded to spend the next seven nights in a commercial frozen meat locker comparing bags with and without the Gore-Tex fabric. Then they tested the bags sleeping under fire sprinklers. They liked what they saw. They ordered another 100 yards of fabric and were in business selling Gore-Tex fabric bags.

The Marmot team immediately changed everything in the line to Gore-Tex fabrications, including the down garments and all the sleeping bags. Marmot designed the first Gore-Tex Bivy sack. Marmot designed a Gore-Tex, single fabric layer, mountaineering tent: the Taku. Marmot is the oldest customer of Gore in the world outdoor market.

Brown Duck Arctic Coat 

Founded in 1889 during the boom of steel, steam and locomotive industries, Hamilton Carhartt & Company started as the namesake of its owner, “Ham,” who  produced  overalls  with  two  sewing  machines  and  a  half-horsepower  electric  motor  in  a  small  Detroit  loft.  Early  failures  led  Hamilton  to  focus  heavily on market research, and after talking directly with railroad workers, he  designed  a  product  that  truly  fit  their  needs.  Under  the  motto,  “Honest  value for an honest dollar,” the Carhartt bib overall was created and rapidly evolved  into  the  standard  for  quality  workwear.  Fast  forward  to  the  1970s,  massive orders for the construction of the Alaska Pipeline helped grow the brand,  and  Carhartt  undeniably  showed  that  its  products  could  survive  and  thrive in the most rugged conditions on Earth.

The  Carhartt  brand  became  popular  with  consumers  outside  blue-collar  trades  during  the  1970s  and  1980s.  More  people  began  to  learn  about  the  brand as big names in the hip-hop music industry started to wear Carhartt. Interest expanded across the pond in Europe, leading to the creation of the Carhartt Work In Progress label in 1989, which is targeted toward consumers in Europe and Asia who value refined details and design that remains true to Carhartt’s brand DNA.

Over the past 15 years, Carhartt has produced more than 80 million garments and  accessories  in  the  U.S.  The  company  also  sources  heavily  from  U.S.  suppliers such as Mt. Vernon Mills in Georgia (fabric) and YKK Snap USA in Kentucky (snaps and buttons), among others. 

Extended Length Ski Jacket

CB Sports was launched in 1969 by former world downhill record holder C.B. Vaughan Jr. after selling his first pair of ski “Super Pants” from his car—significantly changing the outerwear industry. Renowned for bringing color to the mountain, CB Sports became a multi-million dollar sports apparel company reigning as one of America’s leading ski apparel and outdoor brands for 30 years.

In 2010, the CB Sports brand was re-launched by Yellowstone Brands.