How We Came About - The Threads
 The
threads of this website were originally sown, in the South
China Sea, twenty two miles off the coast of Kowloon. Whilst
I was sat with my size 12 steel-toe rigger boots, dangling
over the side of The Julius Offshore Drilling Platform, which
I was working on.
"Where could I get myself some hard
wearing, well made workwear?" similar to those worn by
the American toolpushers who were also working onboard.
The journey has at times been a rocky, twisting,
badly eroded mountain trail and on other occasions a fast
moving, well-tarmac-ed interstate highway. Never being one
to shirk from the necessary graft, the search was on, to track
down some suitable American workwear brands.
Ben Davis has been the key to the whole operation,
and The Duke American Workwear has been the UK distributor
for Ben Davis since 1993. Based in Mission Street, San Francisco,
California since 1935, Ben Davis are renown for their classic
short sleeve zip shirts, which are available in sizes up to
XXXXXL and their Ben's Original jeans which are available
in sizes up to 60" waist.
Classic hard wearing workwear is the crucial
component to the range. Whether you are hard at work at the
blast furnace in a Pittsburgh steelworks or on a weekend hunting
trip in the Appalachians... The Duke can supply you with the
right gear for the right job.
Whether you are grinding a 12 foot long hand
rail and sparks are flying or you are moshing frantically
in a pit...
The Duke can supply you with the right gear for the right
job.
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