The HIDDEN History of Needles Trackpants

Why the stylish sportswear endures.

As W. David Marx notes in his book Ametora, one of the main reasons for the “made in Japan” boom of Americana-inspired clothes was that finding bona fide American-manufactured garments became harder in the ‘90s, when many American labels closed their stateside factories and moved much of their production to Asia. The hunger for the American-inspired aes…