Round House Is Oklahoma Made And USA Proud

Nothing quite says American like baseball, apple pie and a pair of blue jeans.

But chances are the jeans in "your" closet weren't even made in America.

Well the Round House brand is different. It's an Oklahoma company that is seating bottoms across America and abroad. The product is proving as durable as the company itself.

Governor Fallin recognized Round House Manufacturing with a 2011 award for Excellence in Exporting. While overalls are Round House's staple, jeans are catching up and catching on overseas.

But before we tell you about he runways in{}Europe or the boutiques in Japan, we start at the beginning with a look company's history.

Before statehood, Shawnee was already on the map. With 100 trains daily, thousands of railroad workers and the expansion of civilization to the west, opportunity was on the horizon and Round House Manufacturing was born. Named after the repair stations needed for steam locomotives, Round House began in 1903, making overalls for rail workers. Though it's moved from its original location and the 4 story brick building downtown, it still makes overalls, jeans and more.

People like to work in their yard, or farmers are big, carpenters, hunters that type of thing so it's expanded.

Jim Antosh runs Round House and says overalls can also be quite fashionable.

"This is for the hunter who wants his daughter to go with him hunting see."

Antosh oversees 75 Roundhouse employees. The 50 here make one thousand pairs of overalls a day. His son David helps in sales overseas... from the boutiques in Japan, to the United Kingdom, Germany, France and England.

"This past year we've been selling a lot of fashion items to Italy some of them in fashion shows in Florence and Milan have actually featured Round House work wear."

Celebrities also sport the Round House label. Among them, Miranda Lambert, Donald Trump,{}Neil Patrick Harris, Christopher Walken. You'll also see Round House Overalls worn by the train engineers at the Disney Theme parks in the US and overseas. Talk about proud moments at this Shawnee factory.

Sidney McAlister{}is{}a Round House Employee.

"Cause I've even seen some of the shows or movies and I'll spot the Round House out and I'm like oh wow, they're wearing Round House."

Round House is the oldest operating manufacturing company in Oklahoma

"All our competitors have moved offshore but we continue to do here with our good employees and we try to keep management as lean as possible so that we still have competitive prices with offshore but made here.

Round House employees are the company's gems who help carefully craft every stitch.

"What I actually do is on the back of the overalls I sew the diamond."

{}Denise Treadway lights up when she talks about her product, and the USA Made label, knowing she's setting an example for her children.

"Oh yes, yes. My daughter she's 13 and she can read a label like nobody's business she'll come home look what I bought it was on sale guys, how much I saved look at the tag you see who made this?"

{}Round House made it into the Guinness book of records for making the world's largest overalls celebrating 100 years.

{}One of the supervisors threatened to quit if we ever made something ever that difficult again.

{}Though the rail industry no longer dominates the customer base today, employees drive home their commitment in other ways to keep America jobs here by doing their part at One American Way.

Most the denim for the roundhouse label comes from Texas. The trim items like buttons and zippers come from the Georgia area and the thread, from North Carolina. The company like buying American and keeping job jobs here Round House Manufacturing has opened a second plant in Wewoka in 2008. It employees 20 people.