NOIR BASIC

 The Mont Saint-Michel textile goods manufacture was specialized in this kind of workwear. Founded in 1913, it moved to Paris in 1923 to be closer to the Parisians factory and warehouse workers. Employing only ten people in the 1920s, it forged its reputation of producing the most reliable and resistant jacket possible. It swiftly became the biggest workwear maker in France. But after the Second World War, the whole French textile industry was in crisis because it did not adapt to intensive industrial production. And it suffered from massive delocalization. The Parisian factory closed in 1979, benefitting to the widespread dissemination of American practical clothing brands like Wrangler, Dickie’s or Carhart.