Career by Gloweave: About Us

Innovation,
celebrity,
and world
domination

The man
behind the
legacy.

Saul Same

Gloweave Founder

1944: Where it began

Born to immigrant parents, Saul Same grew up trading a simple farm life for service in the RAAF, after which he reluctantly joined his father-in-law’s Melbourne textile business in 1944. Armed with zero clothing experience but a fierce work ethic, Saul transformed a once humble, 12-staff family business into the most innovative and inventive shirt company in Australia, laying the foundations for an 82- year Aussie legacy.

Thinking
outside the
box

Faced with cut-throat competition, Saul's business was nearly squeezed out of the market. Pivoting on pure instinct, he experimented with a nylon hosiery machine to engineer a new and unprecedented knitted nylon shirt fabric. Projecting a slight lustrous sheen, these shirts were cleverly trademarked as Glow-Stripe, Glo-Check and eventually Glo-Weave, forever revolutionising Australian menswear, and permanently rebranding the company.

Hosiery machine

“The difference between the
possible and the
impossible is the measure of a
man's will.”

Saul's mantra

Graham Kennedy

Glamour &
global impact

When Aussie television arrived, Saul seized the opportunity, capitalising on the globally televised 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Gloweave soon sponsored major live shows, with TV legends Graham Kennedy and Bert Newton introducing memorable slogans like "Love me in my Gloweave". As Graham Kennedy famously took Gloweave’s fashion-forward garments around the world, the brand quickly earned international recognition as ragtrade pioneers.

The Body Shirt era

As fashion shifted throughout the 60s & 70s, Gloweave caught lightning in a bottle again, engineering the iconic, tight-fitting "body shirt". Defining the swagger of a generation, demand for the fine jersey knit fabric was intense. To mass-produce it without the highspeed sewing needles shredding the delicate cloth, Saul developed a secret method of lubricating the fabric during the dyeing process - proving once again that nobody engineered a shirt quite like Gloweave.

Groovy dude

David & Saul

Pivot &
reinvention

When massive economic pressures hit the local industry in the 80s, Saul adapted the company's operations to remain sustainable in a changing market, and in 1992, he officially passed the baton to his son, David Same, carrying the family legacy forward. Navigating a brand new era with a continuously changing retail landscape, David diversified into the world of corporate uniforms, launching Career by Gloweave - bringing generations of fabric innovation, quality workmanship, and tailoring excellence to premium luxury workwear.

From prime-time icons to your nine-to-five team.

Graham
Kennedy

Promoting Glo-Weave's iconic
50s Free-Way shirt

Lesley “Twiggy” Hornby

Sporting a signature high-sheen Glo- Weave men's shirt

Our Gloweave Career It-Girl

Always making our garments look straight off the runway

“I wasn't born to make shirts, I was born to be a human being who wanted a wide interest in the community and in the wellbeing of people. I wanted to leave the world a better place than when I came in. I looked at suppliers as partners and our customers as an extension of our business with mutual trust. I looked at our staff as a part of our extended family. I feel that succeeding in business and losing touch with your family is like going up an escalator that is coming down.”

Saul Same