Crispa (clothing brand)

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Crispa
Product type Shirt
OwnerVNF and Sons, Inc.
CountryPhilippines
Introduced1948
Previous owners
  • P. Floro & Sons, Inc.
  • Star Textiles, Inc.
Website crispa.ph

Crispa is a Philippine brand of shirts.

Background

Crispa was established in 1948 [1] as a department store chain by the spouses Pablo and Crisanta Floro. [2] The name is a portmanteau of the couple's first names and was later also used for its textile manufacturing business. [2]

Contents

The brand gained a good reputation by the 1970s with its line of T-shirts, coinciding with the success of its fabled basketball team, the Crispa Redmanizers. [1] [2] [3] The basketball team was established in 1956 by Valeriano "Danny" Floro, one of the sons of the Floro couple. [1] [2]

The original Crispa shirts and underwear were made purely from cotton and underwent a mechanical process called "Redmanization" to make the cloth dimensionally stable and more resilient to unwanted shrinking after washing. [1] [3] Crispa's garment and textile products were marketed as "Redmanized", "shrunk-to-fit". [1] [3] Crispa would discontinue its manufacturing and retail businesses, as well as disband its basketball team, following the decline of the Floro business enterprises by the late-1980s.[ citation needed ]

During the mid-2000s, the Crispa brand was briefly revived by Star Textiles, Inc. with a line of shirts similar to the original line.

In 2020, VNF and Sons, Inc., owned by certain grandchildren of Danny Floro, revived the Crispa brand with the introduction of a new line of T-shirts. [1] [2] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Defensor, Tet (8 June 2021). "Crispa makes a comeback". Manila Standard. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Gomez, Jerome (3 August 2021). "This Crispa shirt revival is taking us back to the wild days of PH basketball". ANCX. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Crispa Redmanizers t-shirts making comeback". BusinessMirror. November 25, 2021. Retrieved November 25, 2021.

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