 The company was founded in Hull in 1956 by tailor Bernard Levy, as a mailorder company.The company's first store was opened in Edgware Road in London in 1959 as Northern Outsize Menswear, soon followed by several more stores.The company changed its name to High and Mighty in the 1970s, and in 1979 it opened stores in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut, trading as "London Majesty".