Victory! Men’s Wearhouse Stops Selling Wild-Animal Skins Following Push From PETA

For Immediate Release:
December 16, 2024

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Moira Colley 202-483-7382

Wear it proudly! After talks with PETA, locally headquartered Tailored Brands—the parent company of Men’s Wearhouse—just confirmed that it no longer sells shoes made from alligator, ostrich, or any other wild animal. In thanks, PETA is sending the company a box of alligator-shaped vegan chocolates.

“Every pair of shoes made from an animal’s skin is made with the suffering of a thinking, feeling being who didn’t want to die,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA applauds Men’s Wearhouse for taking this lifesaving step and urges every other company still selling stolen skins to follow suit.”

Ostriches communicate with a variety of sounds, including chirping and honking, hatchling alligators generally stay together in a “pod” for up to three years, and snakes smell with their tongue and can even tell which direction a smell is coming from. A PETA Asia investigation shows snakes being inflated with water, bashed with hammers, and cut with razors while they were likely still conscious. PETA entities have also documented how workers in the fashion industry hack at crocodiles’ necks and shove metal rods down their spines, chop off conscious lizards’ heads with machetes, and electrically stun ostriches before slitting their throats in full view of their terrified flockmates.

Men’s Wearhouse joins a long list of brands—including Macy’s, Nordstrom, Marc Jacobs, and Burberry— that have shunned wild-animal skins, and PETA is calling on Louis Vuitton men’s creative director, and chronic fur and skins offender, Pharrell Williams to do the same.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.