Whether you are looking for a new brand to try out, getting some ideas for style options, or even doing a  bit of research on men’s clothing – the scope of this guide is to be all-encompassing by assembling a table of all the most popular and best clothing brands for men of 2020.

Furthermore, if you are looking for advice on how to select clothes for your wardrobe with more confidence, we got you covered.  Immediately following the table below, we share some style tips that will be sure to help.

A Table of The Best Clothing Brands for Men

Here is a searchable and sortable table that you can use to find brands that interest you.  Here’s an explanation of each of the columns:

• Brand: Simply the consumer marketed name the company goes by.
• Headquarters: Where the major decisions are made pertaining to style, design, etc.  This does not indicate where the clothes are made.
• Parent Company: Some brands may roll up into a parent organization.  Helpful when determining the quality and design differences between similar brands.
• Year Founded: Year the company recognizes as it’s inception.
• Site Visitors: An estimate of how many people visit the site each year.  Helpful in gauging the popularity of a particular clothing brand.  
• Offerings: Various popular categories of clothing, accessories, or footwear found on the company site.
• Genre: The general style or category of clothing that this brand makes.  This is highly subjective and is open to interpretation. 

Demystifying Men’s Clothing Brands

Trying to find a new brand to buy clothes from can be really difficult – especially when you are uncertain where to go in the first place.

When researching for this article, we wanted to nicely bucket clothing brands into particular styles, ages, prices, etc.  However, the cold hard truth is that you cannot do this, here’s why:

Take Levi’s for instance – if you visit the men’s department on their site, you see the following:

Younger men in super casual and borderline comfort clothing.

I would take a guess that most of these men are in their late teens or early 20s.

But here’s the kicker:

As you are keenly aware, Levi’s isn’t just for young men.  In fact, according to the research firm YouGov, Levi’s is most popular with Millenials AND Boomers (source) with the Boomers also being the most loyal…but as you see above, that’s not the demographic that Levi’s is targeting here.

The takeaway:

As tempting as it may be, you just simply can’t categorize most clothing brands into strict demographics – it is important to realize this.

Now many will think – Well, how do I find a clothing brand that’s right for me?

…and that’s completely fair…

…and honestly, I don’t have an exact answer for you…

…but I can share with you a few helpful tips that can help you navigate men’s fashion a bit easier and with more confidence.  

1. Shop Clothing Brands Based on Specialty

When considering all the different fashion brands, it is best to try and think of them not as a one-stop-shop for all of your wardrobe, but as specialty brands.

The reason is that their products for what they are known for are often well researched, stylish, and constructed better.

For example, while Nike sells polos, rain apparel, sunglasses, etc. their specialty lies particularly well in both footwear and sports clothing.  Their products in these lines are often well-reviewed among men.

As another example, Polo Ralph Lauren is primarily known for their polo shirts rather than their underwear or belts.  So if you want a new polo shirt, put them at the top of your consideration list over a brand like Nike.

Make sense?

Now if you are uncertain about what the brand specializes in, a good tip that works well is to either check out our table above or simply head to the retailer website and look at their navigational menu.

Carrying on with the examples from above, if we check out Nike, we see the following on their site when hovering over ‘Men’ in the menu:

Generally speaking, whatever is in the top left corner is always the most important and relevant offering for the company.

So we can confidently determine that Nike wants us to shop their New Releases and Shoes rather than their Nike FlyEase, Lacross, Hats, Vests, and Headbands (located bottom right).

You can also see this in action on the Polo Ralph Lauren site as well:

You can see just at a glance, that they are also pushing their New Arrivals (top left), and are least interested in