How Todd Snyder’s T-Shirt Side-Hustle Paved the Way for a Fashion Empire

The menswear entrepreneur discussed scaling his eponymous clothing brand on the latest episode of Inc.’s Your Next Move series.

BY BRIAN CONTRERAS, STAFF WRITER @_B_CONTRERAS_

Todd Snyder. Photo: Getty Images

The clothing in Todd Snyder’s eponymous menswear stores is quite high-end: Italian linen suits, fishnet loafers, $1,000 suede jackets. So you would never guess that it all started with some dorm-room tees.

“I had a t-shirt business called Tailgate Clothing that was mostly college t-shirts,” Snyder said Tuesday during a live episode of Inc.’s Your Next Move series, a collaboration with Capital One Business. Amid the 2008 global financial........

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