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Under Armour Vets Launch Revtown Denim Brand

- BY EVAN CLARK

Henry Stafford, Steve Battista and Matthew Maasdam have traded in sweats for jeans with the direct-toconsumer start-up.

A group of Under Armour Inc. ex-pats have turned their attention to denim with Revtown, a new and tightly focused, product- obsessed direct- to- consumer play.

“It took us over a year to develop the jeans,” said Henry Stafford, founder and chief executive officer. “There is a reason that there are not a million start-ups in products. Products are hard to do right.”

Revtown, which launched this week, has two styles of men’s jeans, Sharp and Automatic, which sell for $75 and are made with what the brand calls Decade Denim, a patented fabric featuring fourway dynamic stretch. The brand also

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A group of former Under Armour executives have moved into the denim space online.

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