Open since 1938, Boyds fights back against e-commerce and the rise of the supreme hoodie with extra-personal service and fancy new designer labels.
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BOYDS TO OPEN PERMANENT STORE
IN PHILADELPHIA SUBURBS
Boyds is heading to the ‘burbs. The upscale Philadelphia-based retailer will open a suburban location in Wayne, Pennsylvania, this fall.
BOYDS TO OPEN STORE IN WAYNE,
MAKES SUBURBAN OUTPOST PERMANENT
Nearly two years after opening a temporary store at Suburban Square in Ardmore, Boyds, the high-end retailer that is a Center City institution, has signed a lease for a permanent suburban outpost in Wayne.
THE LAST GREAT CLOTHING STORE
Open since 1938, Boyds fights back against e-commerce and the rise of the supreme hoodie with extra-personal service and fancy new designer labels.
BOYDS TO OPEN A PERMANENT STORE IN WAYNE
The iconic family-owned luxury retailer anticipates a September opening on the Main Line.
BOYDS: THE PHOENIX OF THE LUXURY RETAIL WORLD
Founded by Alec Gushner, who emigrated from Russia in 1936, Boyds had humble origins as a "big & tall" mens clothing store which opened directly across the street from the famous Boyd's Theater and Opera House.
WHY PHILADELPHIA'S HISTORIC BOUTIQUE BOYDS MAY BE THE BEST MENSWEAR SHOP ON THE EAST COAST
One imagines the perfect store to be something out of Cheers - an inviting neighborhood fixture where everybody knows your name. That ideal may not be at reality, but Boyds in Philadelphia comes pretty close.
WHY PHILADELPHIA'S HISTORIC BOUTIQUE BOYDS MAY BE THE BEST MENSWEAR SHOP ON THE EAST COAST
One imagines the perfect store to be something out of Cheers - an inviting neighborhood fixture where everybody knows your name. That ideal may not be at reality, but Boyds in Philadelphia comes pretty close.
WHY PHILADELPHIA'S HISTORIC BOUTIQUE BOYDS MAY BE THE BEST MENSWEAR SHOP ON THE EAST COAST
One imagines the perfect store to be something out of Cheers - an inviting neighborhood fixture where everybody knows your name. That ideal may not be at reality, but Boyds in Philadelphia comes pretty close.
BOYDS' MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR MAKEOVER
The Center City Philadelphia luxury store is making a big push into women's wear. The sprawling five-level, 74,000-square-foot store on Chestnut street is in the midst of a $10 million renovation project that Kent Gushner...
RETAIL VISIONARY AWARD
We're in it for the long haul," confirms Boyds' president and third generation owner (he and his brothers-in-law purchased the store from his father and uncle in 2004...
A CLASSIC COMES OF AGE
Meet the new Boyds Philadelphia...Same as the old Boyds. But better, much much better. The family-owned specialty store is under the guidance of its third- and fourth-generation...
FACES OF FAMILY BUSINESS: THE MARTINS
The family ties at the famed Boyds department store extend beyond the founding Gusher family. Thirty years ago, Sergio and Ana Martins immigrated to Philadelphia from their home in Portugal.
THIS 80-YEAR-OLD DEPARTMENT STORE IS THRIVING
Walk into Boyds, and you may feel like you've been transported back to the mid-twentieth century, when shopping in department stores was the most glamorous way you could spend an afternoon.
FACES OF FAMILY BUSINESS
In 1938, brothers Alex and Albert Gushner founded Boyds, a men's clothing store in Center City. Over the next 80 years the store would grow into an iconic Philadelphia institution for fashionable men and later, women...
BOYDS PHILADELPHIA FACES THE FUTURE WITH NEW REDESIGN
"This is not a renovation; it's a re-design, a re-creation," explains Kent Gushner of the extensive work that's recently begun at his iconic Philadelphia store...
VENERABLE BOYDS GETS REFRESH INSIDE AND OUT
Boyds, the cathedral for men's tailored suits on 1818 Chestnut St., with marble floors, high ceilings, large Pantheonlike columns, and distinctive blue awning, is undergowing a massive $10 million redo, both internally and externally...
VENERABLE BOYDS GETS REFRESH INSIDE AND OUT
Boyds, the cathedral for men's tailored suits on 1818 Chestnut St., with marble floors, high ceilings, large Pantheonlike columns, and distinctive blue awning, is undergowing a massive $10 million redo, both internally and externally...
VENERABLE BOYDS GETS REFRESH INSIDE AND OUT
Boyds, the cathedral for men's tailored suits on 1818 Chestnut St., with marble floors, high ceilings, large Pantheonlike columns, and distinctive blue awning, is undergowing a massive $10 million redo, both internally and externally...
BOYDS UNDERTAKES $10M TRANSFORMATION, LARGEST IN ITS 80-YEAR HISTORY
A year away from turning 80, Boyds has launched a top-to-bottom iniative to not only reinvent what its Chestnut Street store in Center City looks like, but how the store does business, it's not...