Goodwear's Made-in-USA Freedom Sleeve sweatshirt
FREEDOM SLEEVE
Hands Up for Made-in-America
Massachusetts-based apparel maker Goodwear would like you to raise your hands in support of made-in-America manufacturing.
The company introduced a new hoodie with a “Freedom Sleeve,” a gusseted sleeve design that gives the wearer more mobility and range of movement. (According to Goodwear, Hanes and Duxbak called the design the “Swing Sleeve” back in the 1940s.).
In addition to the two-ply gusseted side rib, the 12.5 oz. French Terry hoodie features flat-lock stitching, cross-grain front panels and a nickel-plated YKK zipper.
“The team at Goodwear worked with the knitter and finisher to develop just the right balance of fabric in a thick looped French terry inside the sweatshirt,” said Stephen Liquori, Goodwear chief executive who founded the company in Essex, Mass., in 1983. Goodwear makes T-shirts and sweatshirts sourced in America “at every step along our supply chain, from US-grown cotton to domestic ginning and spinning, to assembly with American truckers transporting our raw materials and finished products.”
