Two years ago in early June, Ript co-founders Matt Ingleby (managing partner), TJ Mapes (director of technology), and Paul Friemel (design director) were roadtripping to visit an old friend in their ...

Dilemma: You want to look sexy but not too sexy—and certainly not all the time. You’re busy and have errands to run, and you can’t have post office employees rubbing up in your junk like pups in heat.

Ript Apparel began in a Chrysler en route from Chicago to Bettendorf, Iowa, in the summer of 2009. Matt Ingleby, Paul Friemel and T.J. Mapes, friends since grade school, were making the three-hour ...

Take a look at this man. He is sculpted. Sophisticated. Discriminating. Confident, as if in possession of a heightened sense of core consciousness. Ripped. But no—-this man is more than ripped. This ...

Tribune reporter Rex Huppke, in the Ript Fusion T-shirt (left) and a regular tee (right). “It felt tight, like I was putting on a shirt a size or two too small,” Huppke said of the Ript shirt.

If you're looking for partners to start a new business, maybe the oldest of friends do make the strongest team. T.J. Mapes, Matt Ingleby and Paul Friemel grew up together in Bettendorf, Iowa. They ...