About Us

One fine morning about a year ago – a morning fit for coming up with the next greatest idea since sliced bread – Bernard Lankford walked in to his favorite Café in Weatherford, Texas for a cup of wake up the brain coffee and satisfy the heck out of your stomach plate of eggs and bacon.

After a delicious breakfast, discussion solving some of the world’s problems with his buddies, and a second cup of coffee, Bernard paid his tab, and walked into the giant ranch store attached to the café.  He wandered through, shaking hands with all his friends who were both shoppers and workers in the store – which was just about everyone present.  As he mosied through, a particular product caught his eye – Underwear.  Skivvies. Briefs.  Trunks.  Banana Hammocks.  Whatever you call them – there was several different types, styles, and brands just sitting there on a shelf, not being bought.  Not being held.  Not even being considered.  Why? Because they had one major problem…okay…two major problems.  First, all the names were lame.  Secondly, all the designs were just not quite right.

“Somebody has got to do something about this” Bernard thought to himself, as he headed out to his car to get on with his day.

A couple months later, his nephew, Alex Blackburn, was up visiting.  As the two of them often did, they discussed major topics – history, the economy, baseball, politics, and the lack of better men’s underwear options.  This time, Bernard vocalized his concern “We’ve got to do something about this”.  Alex has garnered some pretty good manufacturing and clothing experience with other business ventures, and Bernard has garnered some just downright pretty good business experience himself in his 85 years, so they put all this experience together, along with the creative sides of their brains, poured a glass of whiskey, threw in a little elbow grease, and…Toolbox Underwear was born!