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American sports brands that are chic, high-quality, and worth your money
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items Independent American brands across activewear, socks, equipment, and gear that are genuinely worth your money. Some are decades old and refusing to compromise. Some just launched and are doing something nobody else is doing. All of them are chic and ...
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Activewear
Socks
Equipment
Swimwear
Sports Shoes
Activewear
The activewear brand that dared to ask the question: why are we working out in plastic? Founded by a former fashion editor and brand consultant who cleaned up her diet, home, and cleaning products - then looked at her wardrobe and realized her leggin...
H-O-R-S-E
Activewear that supports your lymphatic system while you wear it. Founded by Lauren Scott Dovey, who has PCOS and spent years frustrated by shapewear and activewear that restricted without supporting - she engineered something different. Graduated co...
CEAN
Boston-based, independent, built for runners who take the sport seriously without making it their entire personality. Founded in 2014, Tracksmith makes precise, beautifully designed running apparel rooted in New England running culture - chic, low-ke...
Tracksmith
Launched in Brooklyn in 2020 by two brothers who couldn't find running gear that felt like New York. The whole brand was built in collaboration with the NYC running community - tested on actual runners, shaped by real feedback, refined by the people ...
Bandit Running
Yoga and activewear with no synthetics, no plastic, no toxins - just organic cotton and Tencel dyed by hand with GOTS-certified dyes in a small workshop in Connecticut. The team hand-print and hand-sew everything in small batches, which means limited...
Purusha People
Boston running brand that's given over a million dollars to clean water organizations, uses the highest quality fabrics on the market, and backs every single one of its products with a five year guarantee. I've had the same pair of their shorts for t...
Janji
Socks
The sock with a lifetime guarantee - and they mean it. You get a hole, you send them back, you get new ones. No questions, no conditions. Made in Northfield, Vermont, from fine-gauge Merino wool that's moisture-wicking, temperature-regulating, natura...
Darn Tough Vermont
Grip socks have been in need of a serious re-design for years - the majority of options are lowkey kinda ugly, and a prime bacteria incubator haunting your feet. Fraise, founded in Los Angeles in 2024, fixes these problems. The socks are made with or...
Fraise Socks
Equipment
The last American manufacturer of baseball gloves - and has stood firm on keeping their manufacturing local, even as every other US glove maker moved overseas. The Storey family has been handcrafting gloves in Nocona, Texas since 1934, and they're st...
Nokona
Portland-based brand that rethought the weighted vest from the ground up. Instead of strapping a heavy plate to your chest, OMORPHO distributes hundreds of small high-density spheres across the garment - their patented MicroLoad technology - so the r...
Weighted Clothing: Vests, Shirts & Tights | OMORPHO
Swimwear
Incredibly chic swimwear made of HEMP! Who knew hemp could look so runway. I, personally, am obsessed. Aside from looking incredible, these swimsuits and bikinis are naturally UV resistant, antimicrobial, biodegradable, and feel luxurious against you...
NATASHA TONIC
Everything is made with organic, recycled, or regenerative materials; boardshorts are made from 90% recycled fishing nets retrieved from the ocean; workers in the supply chain earn fair wages with benefits chosen by them.
Outerknown
California native, Amahlia Stevens, founded Vitamin A in 2000 with a mission to bring a modern sensibility to swimwear. Formerly a designer at Patagonia, Stevens was inspired by the idea that style and sustainability are inseparable.
With this vision in mind, she pioneered the concept of sustainable quality swimwear, creating EcoLux, the first luxury swim fabric made from recycled fibers.
Now, with sustainable innovation at its core, Vitamin A is one of the leading names in the modern swim space, making ultra-chic eco-friendly swimwear and designer beachwear. Effortless, elevated, and rooted in an authentic Californian ethos, the bran...
With this vision in mind, she pioneered the concept of sustainable quality swimwear, creating EcoLux, the first luxury swim fabric made from recycled fibers.
Now, with sustainable innovation at its core, Vitamin A is one of the leading names in the modern swim space, making ultra-chic eco-friendly swimwear and designer beachwear. Effortless, elevated, and rooted in an authentic Californian ethos, the bran...
Vitamin A Swimwear
Sustainable, grassroots California-based brand that manufactures all of its swimwear LOCALLY! This is the kind of brand I really love, with an ethos that has so much heart and passion - and the swimsuits are beautiful, too. All surfer girls should ha...
Seea
Hawaii's first sustainable and ethical swimwear brand, founded in 2015 and made entirely in the US with regenerative fabrics from Italian mills. Designed and run by one woman in Honolulu - small-batch, intentional, built for fit and function over tre...
Manakai Swimwear
Sports Shoes
Started in 1985 when a carpenter in Texas couldn't find good quality barefoot shoes for his daughter, so he and his wife learned to sew leather shoes themselves from a local artisan. They started selling them at craft fairs, moved the whole operation...
Softstar Shoes
Two friends founded Bedrock while working AmeriCorps river conservation jobs in Northern California in 2011 - they wanted a better outdoor sandal and started building them by hand in a cabin. Now based in Missoula, Montana. This is the go-anywhere ad...
Bedrock Sandals