The Metric Hosiery Company was a New York City clothing manufacturing firm.
Business history Metric Hosiery leased property at 442-448 Fourth Avenue in January 1930Business Leases, New York Times, January 10, 1930, pg. 42. 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.New Incorporations, New York Times, November 14, 1932, pg. 34. The manufacturer was represented in advertising by the Theodore J. Funt Company, in November 1945.Advertising News And Notes, New York Times, November 29, 1945, pg. 36.
At one point Metric Hosiery was a client of Raymond Loewy, "the father of industrial design".raymond loewy
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.Suit Seeks To Split Spartans, Korvette, New York Times, October 18, 1967, pg. 71.
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