1765 Apparel was started by Will Hawn, a U.S. Army veteran. He wanted faith-and-country apparel that was actually made in America and actually well-built, and he couldn't find it. So he started 1765 Apparel.
Why it exists
The question behind the brand is a simple one: what do you stand on when the ground under you keeps moving?
For Will the answer is the Catholic faith, and what he took from his time in the Army: you stand somewhere, you belong to something, and you're accountable for the people next to you.
What the brand stands on
The conviction stamped on every shirt is this: God first, then the country built to let men worship Him freely. Everything else falls in line behind that.
Why he built 1765 Apparel
Will kept seeing the same thing: faith-and-flag apparel everywhere, almost none of it real. Printed on cheap blanks made overseas. Sold by marketers, not believers. Conviction reduced to a slogan somebody tested for clicks.
So he built the opposite, and built it to a standard:
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American-made, dirt to shirt. US-grown, milled, cut, and sewn cotton (the Bayside 5100). No imported blank wearing a flag. Read the supply-chain proof.
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Marks with real weight. Two thousand years of Christian heritage and 250 years of American resistance: Christus Rex, Militia Christi, the Appeal to Heaven pine, the Stamp Act year itself.
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Not a costume. It's the same gear he wears.
1765 Apparel is the God & Country sister to the God & Men ministry at 1765 Sanctum: one house, one fight, now with something to wear it on.
Questions people ask
Who started 1765 Apparel?
Will Hawn, a U.S. Army veteran, started 1765 Apparel to make faith-and-country apparel.
Are 1765 Apparel tees actually made in America?
Yes, dirt to shirt. The cotton is grown, milled, cut, and sewn in the United States (the Bayside 5100), not imported and merely printed here.
What's the connection between 1765 Apparel and 1765 Sanctum?
They're one house. 1765 Sanctum is the "God & Men" ministry; 1765 Apparel is its "God & Country" sister brand. Same convictions.
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