Clothing brand · United States
Columbia
Outdoor clothing that has equipped adventurers for decades.
Founding, year 1938
Themes: adventure, nature, outdoors, durability.
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The origin
What the date says
- Milestone
- Founding
- What happened
- Paul and Marie Boyle founded the Columbia Hat Company in Portland in 1938, selling hats before technical clothing.
- Year
- 1938
- Source
- Historical documentation
- Note
- Founded in 1938 as the Columbia Hat Company in Portland.
Only the year is documented: if it falls between January 21 and February 21, the sign could be the previous one.
Keep in mind
Affinity is a symbolic reading from the Chinese zodiac tradition, not a measurement: it compares the sign of the year you were born with that of each entry's year of origin.