I have been extremely fortunate to be able to work side by side with my Grandfather, Father, Brother, SIster and 1200 of the most talented extended family members . We spent every week Holiday, birthday and very personal moments together.

I literally grew up my families, what came to be our 73 year old ,made in the USA, manufacuring facility in the heart of South Philly.

I learned every aspect of manufacturing, design, product development, distributing, customer relations and sales during my 28 years.

I started by played hide and seek amoung the fabric rolls, poly bagged and packaged the athletic accsessories, modeled ( as seen to your right), answered phones, filed, traveled to New York's garment district to select new fabrications, designed many of our best selling styles, did the Photo shoots for our catalogue and ran a succesful sales group of over 54 Independant Sales Reps.

I went to the Philadelphia College of Art and finished my education at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science's. It is through these outstanding learning facilities that I was able to develop the most advanced quality control department.

My patented trade mark on our exclusive protective pads was worn by every NFL, CFL, Arena and Collegiate football player.

We manufactured for every top label in our Country.

I started renamed our Reed Street line to the Defend Her Sports label in 1988.

We became a national label and in every Mass Merchanidser's store.

My parent company went under in 2003 but my love for what I did never died. I have been designing

 

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