Carhartt
"Hamilton Carhartt began manufacturing overalls for railroad workers over 110 years ago, 1889. He left school when he was 12 years old, like many men of his time, and started working in a dry goods store cleaning the floors. He adventually worked his way up to a traveling salesman in Southern Michigan. He was later offered a position with Eastern Concern, this business was a wholesaler of finishing good, everything from menswear, shoes, and clothes. He worked as a road salesman where he had a strong ambition to achieve in everything he did. The company he worked for made overalls, after a while of selling the demand got stronger. So, as time went on he thought, why couldn't I make and sell overalls. So he got permission from his boss to rent a 20'x40' loft with two sewing machines and bought a few pieces of denim, he just couldn't exceed his capital of $500. He later found it was hard to compete in price with pieced manufactured in "sweat shops", but it made no difference to him. His target was rail road workers, because they needed thier overalls made tough and very durable. He went to each town where there was a railroad, he enlisted some engineers to cheer him on when presenting his overalls. He was making excatly what the railroad workers wanted, and in his first year of sales he made almost $10,000.00. To this day Carhartt products are made the same, with double knees on overalls and dungarees and double elbows on jackets and made out of a tough, durable canvas. Carhartt products made tough and made to last."