| Metric Hosiery Company | |
| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | Clothing manufacturer |
| Founded: | in New York, United States |
| Founders: | Weiss & Cahn |
| Hq Location: | 442-448 Fourth Avenue |
| Hq Location City: | Manhattan |
| Hq Location Country: | USA |
| Areas Served: | --> |
| Products: | Hosiery |
| Owners: | --> |
| Homepage: | --> |
The Metric Hosiery Company was a New York City clothing manufacturing firm.
Metric Hosiery leased property at 442-448 Fourth Avenue in January 1930[1] and incorporated in November 1932. The owners' names were Weiss & Cahn and the business was located at 220 West 42nd Street (Manhattan). The corporation's initial market capitalization was $20,000.[2] The manufacturer was represented in advertising by the Theodore J. Funt Company, in November 1945.[3]
At one point Metric Hosiery was a client of Raymond Loewy, "the father of industrial design".[4]
Metric lost out to a rival business when E. J. Korvette stores transferred their buying of hosiery to Maro Industries. Gabriel I. Levy, a Yonkers lawyer, filed a $4.6 million damage suit in 1966 in United States District Court for the southern District of New York, in hopes of breaking up a one-year-old merger between Maro's Spartans Industries and E.J. Korvette.[5] [6]