Comfort Meets Protection — Designed by Combat Veterans

OUR STORY

Blue Collar Ops is a veteran owned workwear apparel company. The inspiration to bring high-quality, military grade protection and movement capabilities to the everyday laborer came from a combined 17 years of service in the military & true understanding of the need for protection.

Meet the Veterans & Founders


Ken


Jim


Casey

OUR STORY

Blue Collar Ops is a veteran owned workwear apparel company. The inspiration to bring high-quality, military grade protection and movement capabilities to the US laborer came from Ken’s experiences while serving in the 75th Ranger Regiment. After a couple of months and a couple of beers, Ken enlisted Jim and Casey in his vision to make apparel developed for those who defend our country available to those who build our country. Blue Collar Ops has partnered with the premier special operations forces military uniform manufacturer to leverage their combat proven knee insert design into our work pants.



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I walked past a job site in the middle of the summer in Boston (hot and humid) and there were a few guys literally laying bricks in front of an office building either not wearing any knee pads (younger guys) or older guys wearing massive bulkly knee pads that had to be incredibly uncomfortable, and I thought there is an opportunity here, because I had just left the military and had been wearing combat pants for a years and on deployments to Afghanistan, and I knew the difference the combat pants made in my life when I no longer had to wear knee pads with straps around my legs. I got my first pair of these pants in the middle of the summer in Afghanistan, and they were instant game changers for me, so I wanted to be a game-changer for the US labor industry. 

- Founder & Veteran, Ken Rowe

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

Durability:

At Blue Collar Ops we are not focused on fast-fashion.


Quality is of the utmost importance. As veterans, we know what it is like to wear knee pads with straps all day in hot and humid conditions. The knee pads never stay up and the straps pinch or get looser as you work. It is miserable and ineffective, so we set out to solve that problem. 

A COMBAT VETERAN-OWNED BUSINESS

Blue Collar Ops is a veteran owned workwear apparel company. The inspiration to bring high-quality, military grade protection and movement capabilities to the US laborer came from Ken’s experiences while serving in the 75th Ranger Regiment. After a couple of months and a couple of beers, Ken enlisted Jim and Casey in his vision to make apparel developed for those who defend our country available to those who build our country. Blue Collar Ops has partnered with the premier special operations forces military uniform manufacturer to leverage their combat proven knee insert design into our work pants.

" Having to wear knee pads with straps all day in the Army during hot and humid conditions sucks. "

We are committed not only to bringing you the best, most comfortable knee protection and workwear pants in the industry.