It all started with 20-year-old C.C. Hudson, seeking his fortune in the emerging textile industry in 1897, North Carolina. After working in a factory making overalls for a few years, Hudson and some of his colleagues founded their own overall company, later called Blue Bell Overall Company.
Legend has it that a group of railroad workers who bought overalls at the Hudson store gave C.C. Hudson a bell, and after spending time in the factory, the bell – like everything else – became covered in blue denim dust, hence “Blue Bell”.
After setting a new standard for the industry in 1939, launching overalls out of fabric that reduces shrinkage after washing to less then 1%, Blue Bell acquired the Casey Jones Work-Clothes Company and the rights to a rarely used Casey Jones brand name: Wrangler.
The rest is history.
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