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Cutting and sewing
1620 workwear is cut and sewn here, on a floor that has sewn for premium American labels and the United States government. It knows short runs and it knows hard fabric.
1620 Workwear is American-made workwear, cut and sewn in our own factory in East Boston, Massachusetts.
We bought the factory in 2025, after eight years as its customer.
WKWR Manufacturing, LLC — a wholly owned subsidiary of 1620 Workwear
East Boston, Massachusetts
Since 2017, the year the brand launched
September 2025, when we acquired Classic Apparel of Boston
Short- and medium-run cut-and-sew: pattern, prototype and production in one building
Amesbury, Massachusetts — warehouse, fulfillment and showroom
1620 workwear is cut and sewn here, on a floor that has sewn for premium American labels and the United States government. It knows short runs and it knows hard fabric.
Design, pattern, prototype and production happen in one building. When a bar tack gives out in the field, we change it on the line — not in an email thread across twelve time zones.
Most workwear is sewn overseas and spends weeks in a container before it clears a port. Ours comes up Route 1 to our warehouse in Amesbury — off our own floor, not off a boat.
Production is scheduled, not shipped. Short runs, size breaks and program orders don't need a season-sized commitment, and questions go to people who can walk onto the floor and look.
1620 Workwear is cut and sewn in our own factory in East Boston, Massachusetts. The factory operates as WKWR Manufacturing, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of 1620 Workwear, Inc. Our headquarters, warehouse and showroom are in Amesbury, Massachusetts.
Yes. We own the building our clothes come out of. On September 9, 2025, we acquired Classic Apparel of Boston — the East Boston cut-and-sew shop that had been sewing 1620 since 2017. We did not hire a factory. We bought one. The building, the machines and the people inside it are ours.
Because we watched factories we depended on close. Two of the shops in our supply chain filed for bankruptcy. When a company does not own its sewing, it is one closure away from having nothing to sell and no way to make more. Buying the floor took that risk off the table permanently. It also took out the lead time, the minimum order, and the queue behind somebody else's order.
We don't wait for a ship. Most workwear sold in this country is sewn overseas, loaded into a container, and spends weeks at sea before it reaches a port — and more time still before it clears one. A delay anywhere in that chain is a season lost. Ours comes up Route 1. We take delivery off our own floor, not off a container.
The same hands that always did. The crew came with the building, and so did the leadership team that ran it. This floor has sewn for premium American labels and for the United States government. We did not bring in a new crew. We bought the one that was already good, and we are investing in the machines under them.
A problem found Monday is fixed Tuesday. Design, pattern, prototype and production happen in one building. When a bar tack gives out in the field, we change it on the line — not in an email thread across twelve time zones. It is also what makes a lifetime guarantee possible: we know exactly how every garment was built, because we built it.
Yes. 1620 workwear is made in the USA, cut and sewn in East Boston, Massachusetts, and guaranteed for life.
No containers. No port delays. No six-month buy. If you are stocking 1620 or outfitting a crew, the factory is the reason your reorder behaves differently than every other line on your shelf. A reorder is a slot on a line, not a place in a queue behind somebody else's container. Short runs, size breaks and program orders do not require a season-sized commitment. Start at Outfit Your Crew.
WKWR Manufacturing · East Boston, Massachusetts
