The history of Phillips-Van Heusen (PVH) goes back to the 1880s, when George Bass started his shoe company in Maine. A few years later, in 1881, Moses Philips started selling shirts out of a pushcart. This would be the first shirt company to advertise in the Saturday Evening Post. Separately, John Van Heusen was granted a 1919 patent for shirts with self-folding collars. Van Heusen and Phillips formed a corporation together, and later bought Bass shoes. Since then, the corporation has grown into a major fashion distributor with over 700 outlets worldwide. Headquartered in Manhattan, PVH acquired the Calvin Klein brand in 2003. Other brands that are wholly owned by PVH are Van Heusen, Izod, Arrow and Bass. They also license brands like Chaps and Kenneth Cole.