Moses Phillips
Background
Moses Phillips was a Polish-born peddler who, in 1881, began selling flannel shirts sewn by his wife, Ida, to coal miners in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. The business grew into M. Phillips & Son by 1887, and in 1907 merged with D. Jones & Sons, a Lebanon County, Pennsylvania factory operator; the combined company incorporated in New York in 1914 as Phillips-Jones Co., renamed Phillips-Jones Corp. in 1919. In 1920 the company introduced the first collar-attached dress shirt, a significant innovation in an industry where shirts and detachable collars had been sold separately, and became one of the first companies to advertise shirts in the Saturday Evening Post. A later Phillips descendant, Isaac Phillips, partnered with John Van Heusen, leading to the acquisition of the Van Heusen shirt brand and the company's 1957 renaming to Phillips-Van Heusen.
Role at PVH Corp.
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