About Us

totes»ISOTONER^® Corporation, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the world's largest marketer of umbrellas, gloves, rainwear, rubber overshoes, and other weather-related accessories.  We recently added the ESNY brand to our Family. 

ESNY brings beautifully detailed sandals and flip-flops to our product selection.  If you’re looking for rain umbrellas, outdoor umbrellas, sun umbrellas even kids umbrellas, our totes brand has them all.  From golf umbrellas to automatic open and close folding umbrellas, totes umbrellas will fit your every rain umbrella or sun umbrella need.   totes offers screen printed logo umbrellas and promotional umbrellas with your company logo.  totes ... we’ve got you covered! 

The ISOTONER brand of products offers a full line of winter gloves, leather gloves, stretch leather gloves and stretch classic gloves as well as women's slippers, men's slippers and kids' slippers.  Our ISOTONER slippers include ladies slippers, ballerina slippers, satin slippers, bridal slippers, wedding slippers, moccasin slippers and clog slippers.  ISOTONER … you have to wear them to believe them!
 

The totes® Story

In 1923, the SoLo Marx Company was founded in Oakley, Ohio, a small suburb of Cincinnati.  The plant was moved to Loveland, Ohio in 1942 where the very first totes rubber rain boots were manufactured. These rubber rain boots, called "totes" to emphasize how portable and easy-to-carry they were, eventually became the company's most popular product.  In 1961, Brad Phillips, a Chicago businessman, bought SoLo Marx and changed the name to totes, Incorporated. In 1969 he obtained the first patent for a working folding umbrella. In 1970, totes introduced the very first folding umbrella in the United States and it quickly became a hit.  In the 1970s, in addition to the folding rain umbrella, many products were introduced under the totes name, including totes rain scarves, rainwear, hats, expanding bags, and slipper socks. 1985 brought the development of the Chromatics program, a line of weather products targeted to the supermarket, drugstore, and mass merchandiser trade classes. About this time totes established offices in New York, Toronto, the United Kingdom and Asia.


The »ISOTONER^® Story

Founded in 1910, the Aris Glove Company originally manufactured fine quality leather gloves and knit accessories in Europe and later in the United States. In the early 1970’s, Aris developed a glove made from nylon/spandex fabric with leather trim.  The glove was marketed under the ISOTONER name – combining the terms “isometric” and “toning” to reflect the 4-way stretch and massaging properties. The ISOTONER glove was a major success for the company. Aris changed its name to ARIS»ISOTONER, Incorporated and in 1969 became a subsidiary of Consolidated Foods, now the Sara Lee Corporation. Based on the success of the ISOTONER women's gloves, ISOTONER men's gloves were introduced, and ISOTONER slippers were created.


The  totes»ISOTONER^® Story

In 1997, totes and ISOTONER merged to form the totes»ISOTONER Corporation. This company offers quality products from two of the most recognized apparel brand names in the country.  In the most recent Women’s Wear Daily top 100 survey, ISOTONER and totes were among the top 10 most widely recognized accessory brands.

Today, totes»ISOTONER is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio where we operate a state of the art office and distribution center. We have over 1,000 employees worldwide among our Cincinnati, New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Manila offices. Our mission is to offer well-built, durable weather accessories for the whole family.

totes»ISOTONER operates a chain of outlet stores where you can find slightly irregular goods, discontinued colors, and previous season's items at great discounts. While you may not find the styles pictured here on our site, we're sure you'll find some great deals. 

We're also one of the largest retailers of sunglasses in the United States!  Stop by one of our many Sunglasses World locations across the country and check out the fine selection of premium and moderately priced, brand name sunglasses.

To find our Retail Outlet store or Sunglasses World location nearest to you, view Store Locations.

You can visit the web sites of our United Kingdom division at www.totesuk.com, or our France division at www.isotoner.fr.