<P> The Fruit of the Loom brand dates back to 1851 in Rhode Island when Robert Knight , a textile mill owner , visited his friend , Rufus Skeel . Skeel owned a small shop in Providence that sold cloth from Knight 's mill . Skeel 's daughter painted images of apples and applied them to the bolts of cloth . The ones with the apple emblems proved most popular . Mr. Knight thought the labels would be the perfect symbol for his trade name , Fruit of the Loom -- an expression referring to clothes , paralleling the phrase `` fruit of the womb '' meaning `` children '' , which can be traced back to use in the Bible ( Psalm 127 : 3 ) . </P>
<P> The Fruit of the Loom brand dates back to 1851 in Rhode Island when Robert Knight , a textile mill owner , visited his friend , Rufus Skeel . Skeel owned a small shop in Providence that sold cloth from Knight 's mill . Skeel 's daughter painted images of apples and applied them to the bolts of cloth . The ones with the apple emblems proved most popular . Mr. Knight thought the labels would be the perfect symbol for his trade name , Fruit of the Loom -- an expression referring to clothes , paralleling the phrase `` fruit of the womb '' meaning `` children '' , which can be traced back to use in the Bible ( Psalm 127 : 3 ) . </P>
when did fruit of the loom come out
when did fruit of the loom come out
1851
1851