In 1856 Thomas Burberry opened his first textileshop in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
In 1880 Thomas Burberry inaugurated his own-invented Garbadine, which he developed over and over. Garbadine is an robust, waterresistant and breathactive cotton-commodity and was patented in 1880.
The Headquarter is located in the famous Haymarket in London. There the first Burberry shop was opened.
Burberry was known from the invention of a trenchcoat, which he created by the order of the british military management. This coat was the clothing of the british armee. Burberry also equipped the arctic-expedition Roald Amundsens in 1914.
And for sure it is not by chance that Burberry is the royal british courtyard supplier.
The typical Burberry-Check (Nova Check) is distinctive and is not just longer used for lining solid, it is also used for outer fabrics, leatherprints and imitations of leather.
