Familiarity with Hilton menswear?

[MisterGee]

Looking at some suits and I've come across several made by Hilton. Appear to be well made and very competitively priced. Wondering if anyone has any info or has had any experience with them. Thanks for everyone's help.

Tony

 

[rssmsvc]

Is that some line of Nick Hilton ? I remember that name and there company made awesome stuff for Mark Shale , when Mark Shale carried well made US items. I have a tie or 2 of the Nick Hilton line and it is only second to Sam Hober.

RS

 

[MisterGee]

I don't know. I'm not familiar with Nick Hilton stuff either. Frankly, there's a nice, conservative suit in my size on Yoox for very short money that's made by Hilton. Their prices appear to be what Yoox gets for more renowned, SF-favorite brands, so I would start with the assumption that they're at least decent quality. But, as we all know fairly well, Yoox is pretty capricious in their pricing...and everything else, for that matter.

 

[Tomasso]

"The Hilton Legacy



In 1888, in northern New Jersey, Joseph Hilton and his three brothers began tailoring clothes for men. In those days the customer base for a fledgling firm like theirs were the butlers and chauffeurs of the rich and famous, but within a few years their reputation was established and business grew.

Joseph Hilton, the youngest of the four, had what was at the time a revolutionary idea. Instead of travelling around - mostly on foot - to show his wares to potential customers, Joe thought, why not just open a store where they might come and see the clothes and try them on, rather than picking the styles from books and swatches. It sounds almost silly in the age of big-box stores, but the idea of the gentleman's specialty shop was born in the early days of the twentieth century. The Joseph Hilton and Sons stores soon numbered 10, all located in Newark, New Jersey and in the five boroughs of New York City, and eventually a factory was built in Linden, New Jersey to manufacture the suits, sport jackets, trousers and coats that the stores sold.

Norman Hilton began his career on the strength of another novel idea. In the 1940s the Ivy League style of clothing was mostly confined to the shops and custom tailors that were located in Ivy League towns. J. Press of New Haven, Langrock's in Princeton, and such stores catered to the tastes and quality sensibilities of the new "natural shoulder" customer exclusively. Norman Hilton, fresh from Princeton and Harvard Business School by way of the U.S. Navy, decided to use the Joseph Hilton manufacturing facility to produce traditional, Ivy League-style clothing for independent stores around the country. In so doing, Hilton shared in the enormous growth and acceptance that such clothing was achieving everywhere in the country. By the mid-1960s there was not a fine men's specialty store in the country which was not featuring Norman Hilton Clothing.

Over the course of the next couple of decades, Norman Hilton was largely responsible for the birth and growth of Polo by Ralph Lauren, the initiation of Halston in the men's wear field, and the emergence of Burberry as a force in America.

Today the significance of the Hilton name is recognized by cognoscenti of men's apparel around the world. Nick and Jennifer Hilton, (you will find their individual profiles under separate headings,) proprietors of the Nick Hilton store in Princeton, have worked in every area of the apparel industry for many years. The store itself represents the culmination of more than a century's history and experience.. Nick Hilton stores are unique in having behind them this monumental history and legacy of knowledge, practice and taste. "

 

[MisterGee]

Thanks. Sheds some light.

Originally Posted by Tomasso

"The Hilton Legacy



In 1888, in northern New Jersey, Joseph Hilton and his three brothers began tailoring clothes for men. In those days the customer base for a fledgling firm like theirs were the butlers and chauffeurs of the rich and famous, but within a few years their reputation was established and business grew.

Joseph Hilton, the youngest of the four, had what was at the time a revolutionary idea. Instead of travelling around - mostly on foot - to show his wares to potential customers, Joe thought, why not just open a store where they might come and see the clothes and try them on, rather than picking the styles from books and swatches. It sounds almost silly in the age of big-box stores, but the idea of the gentleman's specialty shop was born in the early days of the twentieth century. The Joseph Hilton and Sons stores soon numbered 10, all located in Newark, New Jersey and in the five boroughs of New York City, and eventually a factory was built in Linden, New Jersey to manufacture the suits, sport jackets, trousers and coats that the stores sold.

Norman Hilton began his career on the strength of another novel idea. In the 1940s the Ivy League style of clothing was mostly confined to the shops and custom tailors that were located in Ivy League towns. J. Press of New Haven, Langrock's in Princeton, and such stores catered to the tastes and quality sensibilities of the new "natural shoulder" customer exclusively. Norman Hilton, fresh from Princeton and Harvard Business School by way of the U.S. Navy, decided to use the Joseph Hilton manufacturing facility to produce traditional, Ivy League-style clothing for independent stores around the country. In so doing, Hilton shared in the enormous growth and acceptance that such clothing was achieving everywhere in the country. By the mid-1960s there was not a fine men's specialty store in the country which was not featuring Norman Hilton Clothing.

Over the course of the next couple of decades, Norman Hilton was largely responsible for the birth and growth of Polo by Ralph Lauren, the initiation of Halston in the men's wear field, and the emergence of Burberry as a force in America.

Today the significance of the Hilton name is recognized by cognoscenti of men's apparel around the world. Nick and Jennifer Hilton, (you will find their individual profiles under separate headings,) proprietors of the Nick Hilton store in Princeton, have worked in every area of the apparel industry for many years. The store itself represents the culmination of more than a century's history and experience.. Nick Hilton stores are unique in having behind them this monumental history and legacy of knowledge, practice and taste. "

 

[Tomasso]

I'll just add that the older (80's) Norman Hilton stuff was of Hickey-Freeman quality and that the Nick Hilton line was/is something less..........maybe HSM (Hart Schaffner Marx).

 

[Backhand]

so what relationship does this (see below) have to these various Hiltons? Rolla Gray and Sons was a specialty men's shop in Portland Oregon so Im assuming they ordered things from some Hilton factory (New Jersey?) to create a specific line? I believe this is from the 1960's