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Perry Brothers Revive Famed Duxbak Apparel Line
by Mark Friedman on 8/15/2016

Scott Perry hopes the time is right to introduce Duxbak to a new generation. Duxbak was touted as the country’s first outdoor brand and is considered one of America’s most “iconic and nostalgic outdoor brands,” Perry notes in Duxbak marketing materials.

But Duxbak, founded in 1904, hasn’t been available since the mid 1980s. Until now.

Perry, 46, of Little Rock, and his brother Jason obtained the licensing rights to revive Duxbak in February. They are developing Duxbak hunting shirts, hunting vests and jackets and anticipate selling them in the fall or by the end of the year.

“What we’re doing is more a combination of yesterday and today as far as the product offering,” Scott Perry said. “We’re not going back in time and making product that’s so retro that it really wouldn’t be attractive.”

Perry’s connection to the brand drove him to rekindle Duxbak.

“This brand has been something that I’ve admired since I was a kid,” Perry said. “Duxbak is one of those brands that I bought and wore growing up. My dad wore it.”

Perry said he tried to secure the rights to the brand three years ago, “but the timing wasn’t right.”

In the fall of 2015, though, everything fell into place.

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Duxbak of Utica, New York was at one time one of the largest and highest quality manufacturers of hunting garments in the country.

The story begins with businessman Quentin McAdam (b.1851, d. 1919). McAdam started with his uncle's company, Buckingham & Mitchell in 1867. By 1879, he bought out the company and renamed it, Quentin McAdam, wholesale notions. The company went through a series of partnerships and buyouts, becoming McAdam & Hart, then McAdam & Rathbun, then Rathbun & Company after McAdams departure. McAdam founded the Riverside Manufacturing Company of 3-5 Meadow Street, Utica, a manufacturer of "Workingman's Clothes", primarily overalls. McAdam sold Riverside to his business partners in 1899 and founded the Utica Knitting Company, which became one of the largest knitting mills in the country. While managing that concern, he was also president of Duxbak for a time.

Albert G. Jones (b.1856, d. 1928) started with Buckhingham & Mitchell in 1872, staying with it as a traveling salesman through the various changes in ownership until 1904. McAdam and Jones were among the organizers of the Commercial Travelers' Accident Association in 1883, McAdam held the number 68 in that organization, Jones held no. 70. Within two years, 100,000 more had joined.

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