Jan 30 2025

The Man Behind the Made In America Store is Ready for 2025

Jun 12 2024

Why Joe Van Deman Left Google to Keep it Made in America: “We make things with our hands”

Featured Companies

All Companies

JEWELRY

Bang-Up Betty

North Little Rock, Arkansas

About Bang-Up Betty

The freshly hand-cut birthstone necklaces from Bang-Up Betty can fit with any outfit. Or checkout the brand’s Space Age Collection, which offers a fun interpretation of the universe and space travel. Bang-Up Betty pieces are all stamped by hand in North Little Rock.

×
CLOTHING ACCESSORIES

Beau Tie

Middlebury, Vermont

About Beau Tie

Spruce up your loved one’s wardrobe with Made in Middlebury, Vt., bowties, neckties, scarves, and so much more. Since its founding in 1993, Beau Ties’s signature item has remained it bowtie, handmade through a 22-step process, but the company continues to expand its product lines for men, women and children. Now, it boasts “the largest selection of ties and accessories anywhere in the U.S.” Do note that some of Beau Ties’ products are manufactured overseas, so be sure to check product descriptions.

×
Custom Clothing

Bespoke Edge

Windsor, Colorado

About Bespoke Edge

Bespoke Edge, a family-operated company out of Colorado, has hand-designed suits since 2012. If you live in Denver, Fort Collins, Boulder, or Scottsdale, Colorado, a Bespoke Edge representative will come directly to your home or office to offer a showroom experience customized for you with a free wardrobe consultation and take all the measurements needed to design the perfect suit for you. If you live outside of the Colorado area, Bespoke Edge will communicate via email or phone to meet your needs. 

Bespoke Edge reports that its “dress shirts are manufactured in New Jersey and our Signature level suiting (hand-made suits) are made in New York.” The company’s Platinum level custom suits are made in China, however.

×
Women's Evening Wear

Bespoke Southerly

Potomac, Maryland

About Bespoke Southerly

Create the gown of your dreams with Bespoke Southerly’s custom-made apparel. Made to order, Bespoke Southerly allows its customers to select every detail from color to trim options to pockets.

×
JEWELRY

Betsy Pittard Designs

Augusta, Georgia

About Betsy Pittard Designs

Here’s another jewelry pick from the Peach State: Betsy Pittard Designs. The company began in namesake Betsy Pittard Hartley’s dorm room back in 2006, and now employs more than 30 women. Choose from fashionable bracelets, earrings, and necklaces, and even some of the brand’s colorful favorites. Reader Pick

×
Fashion Accessories

Bexar Goods Co.

San Antonio, Texas

About Bexar Goods Co.

Bexar Goods Co. is a producer of fine leather goods made by a small team of craftsmen in San Antonio, Texas. The make everything from wallets, satchels, watch straps, and dry goods. In fact, they even designed a limited collection of wallets and merchandise for the San Antonio Spurs in 2018.

×
BELTS, BAGS, AND OTHER ACCESSORIES

Bicycle Trash

Washington, D.C, Virginia

About Bicycle Trash

What began as a side project reworking old bicycle parts into handmade goods became a full time enterprise for Bicycle Trash proprietor Topaz Terry. Belts and bags made of bike tubes, bottle openers made from bike chains or my favorite – a six-pack pannier. I love bikes, and this stuff is cool.

×
LEATHER ACCESSORIES AND APPAREL

BillyKirk

Jersey City, New Jersey

About BillyKirk

BillyKirk is a Made in America mainstay, having made its stylish line of accessories in the United States since 1999. Frankly, we couldn’t figure out why the brand hadn’t previously been included in this gift guide. BillyKirk has collaborated with brands like Vans, Levi’s, Target, and GQ, and its products have appeared in numerous movies and television productions. Reader Pick

×
HANDBAGS

Blackkat Leather

Chester, Connecticut

About Blackkat Leather

Blackkat Leather’sartisanal bags and accessories are meticulously handstitched with the highest quality materials that can be obtained, but with a reasonable $200-300 price point for most of its handbags. Though the company began in a Santa Cruz, Calif., garage studio, it is now firmly established in the picturesque New England town of Chester, where owners Cassandra and Drew Archer opened their brick-and-mortar store in 2016.  

×