International Male is or was a mail-order vendor of men's casual, office-casual and some gallant clothing which are or were at various price levels and which are and were generally geared to the dandy. The company is owned by New Jersey-based group Hanover Direct, and has existed since the late 1970s. The catalog originally carried a wide variety of men's underwear, but this was once spun off into a separate catalog, Undergear, which focused exclusively on men's underwear, swimwear and some casual wear. As of 2009, Hanover Direct consolidated these two product platforms under the Undergear label. Undergear is now the sole catalog and web site and incorporates the non-underwear items that would earlier have been in the International Male catalog-website. The selection of non-underwear clothing is quite limited in comparison to the former years (when International Male was its own separate catalog and website containing many items of clothing besides underwear and swimwear). Over the years many famous models and actors have posed for the catalog such as Cameron Mathison, Charles Dera, Christian Boeving, David Chokachi, Gregg Avedon, Reichen Lehmkuhl, Rusty Joiner and Scott King.
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