Washington, D.C. — The Alliance for American Manufacturing is profiling the makers who crafted Team USA’s uniforms for the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympic Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies. The Opening Ceremony starts at 1:30 p.m. Eastern today.
Designer Ralph Lauren tapped into a robust U.S. supply chain and offered a limited run of copies for sale to the public, proving that, despite all odds, American apparel manufacturing is alive and well.
Watch this video for how America’s apparel industry produced Team USA’s uniform and take a look at other great manufacturers keeping the Made in America movement strong.
Some of the apparel manufacturers behind Team USA:
- Family-owned, women-owned and union-represented Ferrara Manufacturing has been an Olympics partner with Ralph Lauren since 2014. The Long Island City apparel manufacturer’s reputation for high-end tailoring has earned it work with luxury labels and made it a mainstay of New York’s wholesale fashion industry.
- A back injury inspired the start of the small Portland, Maine leather goods company that manufactured the Open and Closing Ceremonies belt, and that ingenuity has served it in good stead in its production of Team USA’s belt. Family-owned Rogue Industries knit together a new network of suppliers to source American-grown cotton, metal buckles, U.S.-made thread, and even American packaging materials for the Olympics.
- Rancourt & Co.’s shoemakers handstitched white suede buck shoes in their for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. An interview with Mike Rancourt, the co-owner and president of the legacy brand, airs on The Manufacturing Report podcast on Monday.