Adolphe Lafont

Brand of work clothing launched in France by 1896 by a tailor of that name in Lyon following his invention of “la poche mètre,” a pocket sewn over the pants waist for his father-in-law, a carpenter, who didn’t know where to put his tape measure. Overalls soon followed from this. In 1975 Vogue America dedicated a cover to Lafont’s colored overalls and they soon became the fashion.
The brand is taken over by the Danish group Kansas Wenaas.
The crisis at a plant in Villefranche-sur-Soane resulted in the dismissal of 51 workers, with a large part of the production moved to North Africa and Poland. In recent years Adolph Lafont consolidated the production of Textiles Chaussures Export in Tunisia.