- “Clothes Over Bros is my dream come true. This is what I wished for.”
- ―Brooke Davis
Clothes Over Bros (C/B) is a women's clothing and accessory retailer founded by Brooke Davis. Established in the third season during her senior year of high school, Brooke developed the idea of a fashion line as a means of distracting herself from problems in her relationship with Lucas Scott. For most of her young adulthood, Brooke placed most of her attention into the success of Clothes Over Bros, using it as a personal outlet to escape heartache and other hardships in her life.
By the time of the series' four-year time jump in the fifth season, Clothes Over Bros had grown to become a multi-million dollar fashion empire, with Brooke and her mother Victoria at the helm. With its headquarters in New York City, the company had expanded to include a fashion magazine, with forays into infant and men's apparel planned never coming to fruition. After a lawsuit claiming fraudulent business practices was filed against the company and its owners in season eight, the resulting backlash and financial situation forced Brooke to sell Clothes Over Bros.
History[]
Beginnings[]

Brooke receives orders for her C/B designs from her website.
After feeling as though she had jeopardized her relationship with Lucas Scott, Brooke is counselled by her friend and roommate, Haley James Scott, to focus her attention on her talent in fashion. It is her conversation with Haley that leads Brooke to name her venture Clothes Over Bro's. Brooke soon went to work, using Peyton Sawyer's Love Triangle artwork as inspiration. Showing her designs to Haley and Peyton, they instantly loved them and Brooke decided to get Mouth's help to launch a website as a means to sell her clothes.
Mouth is able to set up a website, clothesoverbros.com, and Brooke began to receive numerous orders, too many to handle on her own. Enlisting the help of her friends and fellow cheerleaders, Brooke completes the initial orders for C/B. Soon afterward, Brooke receives a letter offering to show her designs at Rogue Vogue. Initially believing Lucas to have been the one to submit her designs, she eventually learns that it was Rachel Gatina as a means to make Brooke miss the annual cheerleading tournament and steal the limelight. Despite Rachel's attempt, Brooke is able to attend both Rogue Vogue and the cheerleading tournament.
Missing years[]
After graduating high school, Brooke accepted an offer from her mother, Victoria Davis, to help make the company more successful, but in doing so, Brooke lost much of her control over the business. During this time, the groundwork was laid for Clothes Over Bros rise to prominence and national recognition. After two years under the leadership of Davis Enterprises, the company's growing success prompted to creation of B. Davis Magazine.
By the time of the season five premiere, Brooke Davis and Clothes Over Bros had become household names. Despite her company's continuing success and her own personal fortune, Brooke lived a lonely existence in New York. After speaking with Peyton Sawyer about how their lives had taken different paths than what they had originally wanted, Brooke decides to ditch her plans for her trip to Milan and instead flies back home to Tree Hill.
Return to Tree Hill[]

Brooke opens the C/B storefront in Tree Hill, North Carolina.
Upon returning home to Tree Hill, Brooke decided she wanted to open a store in her hometown. As Karen's Café had closed during her absence, she purchased the building from Karen Roe due to its prime location and because of its sentimental value. The new C/B store's opening was host to several of Brooke's friends, including Lucas Scott and Peyton Sawyer. Rather than return to the company's main office in New York, Brooke opted to stay and run Clothes Over Bros from her Tree Hill store.
War of the Davises[]
The direction of the company created several problems between Brooke and Victoria Davis. Deeming her daughter's judgement to be detrimental to the company, Victoria decides to take Clothes Over Bros away from her. Brooke refused and the company's ownership entered into a judicial war between mother and daughter. The judge's ruling was never reached, however, as Brooke decides to hand C/B to her mother after the revelation of her birth and her mother's feelings toward her.
Under Victoria's leadership, Clothes Over Bros begins facing numerous obstacles without its head designer. After only a few months, Victoria opts to give the company back to Brooke.
Brooke's return and a new campaign[]

The "Zero Is Not a Size" campaign, headed by Millie Huxtable.
Upon her return to the company, Brooke Davis held a fashion show for her upcoming clothing line at TRIC. Millicent Huxtable is put in charge and as she checks on one of the models, Makenna begins to belittle her, stating that she isn't welcome "where the pretty people play." Upon hearing this, model Alex Dupre hatches a plan to force Makenna out of the show and replace her with Millicent. Millicent does indeed replace her in the show but states that she "isn't a size zero." Brooke responds to this by taking a plain vest top and writing ZERO IS NOT A SIZE on it, telling Millicent to model it onstage. It becomes an instant hit and becomes the inspiration for a new campaign for Clothes Over Bros.
Attempted expansion and bankruptcy[]
Following the success of the "Zero Is Not a Size" campaign, Brooke and Victoria consider launching an expansion for men's apparel. This brainchild would ultimately become Clothes 4 Bros and would be headed by Alexander Coyne. However, the Clothes 4 Bros expansion project was shut down following a lawsuit against its parent corporation, Clothes Over Bros, as well as its owners, Brooke and Victoria Davis, for fraud.
An unknowing Brooke is arrested and discovers that Victoria and Millicent had falsified profits and lied to the company's investors in order to find funding for the new men's line. Upon her initial release, Brooke handles the press and learns that she may end up having to go to jail because of the whole ordeal. Rather than see this, Victoria hands herself in and while Brooke is forced to deal with the company's investors. With no other options, she makes the difficult decision to sell Clothes Over Bros, its assets and Brooke's own personal assets in order to pay back the investors, virtually leaving her in financial ruin.
Change of leadership[]
After the company's sale, Clothes Over Bros was able to stabilize its finances and was working to repair its reputation. After a failed adoption, Brooke accepts the offer after speaking with her mother Victoria, who had recently been released from jail. Before her move back to New York, however, Brooke learns that she is pregnant and declines the position in order to raise her child in her hometown of Tree Hill, North Carolina. This pregnancy would ultimately lead to birth of twins Davis and Jude Baker.
With their offer declined, Clothes Over Bros moved forward without its founder.
Staff[]
Clothes Over Bros was a subsidiary of Davis Enterprises during Brooke and Victoria's ownership of the company. It is unknown who currently controls the interests of her former fashion empire.
Ownership[]
- Brooke Davis (2006−2012)
- Victoria Davis (2012−2013)
- Brooke Davis and Victoria Davis (2013−2015)
- Unknown (2015−present)
Note: Years are in OTH timeline, not real life dates.
Former staff[]
Executives[]
- Brooke Davis, former chief creative officer (CCO) and primary shareholder
- Victoria Davis, former chief executive officer (CEO) and president
- Millicent Huxtable, former vice president
- Alexander Coyne, former president/creative director of Clothes 4 Bros
Models[]
Others[]
- Calliope, another of Brooke's assistants
- Quinn James, photographer
Subsidiaries[]
B. Davis Couture[]
B. Davis Couture is a fashion magazine run and owned by Clothes Over Bros. The magazine discusses fashion, beauty, and personal health. Brooke Davis graced the covers of several issues of the magazine herself.
Former subsidiaries[]
Baby Brooke[]

Designs for Baby Brooke (BB).
Baby Brooke was a proposed fashion line for infant girls created by Brooke Davis after gaining inspiration from fostering Angie. Despite her efforts, Baby Brooke never came to fruition and she gave several of her samples to Peyton Sawyer for her newborn daughter.
After departing Clothes Over Bros in the eighth season, Brooke revisited the idea of designing an infant clothing line. With funding from her parents, Ted and Victoria Davis, she opened an infant retailer in Tree Hill known as Baker Man. Whereas Baby Brooke had been designed for baby girls, Baker Man was geared toward baby boys, as Brooke had been inspired by the birth of her twin sons, Davis and Jude Baker.
Clothes 4 Bros[]
Clothes 4 Bros was a planned expansion of the company into the market for men's apparel. Headed by Alexander Coyne, the men's expansion was put to a halt when Clothes Over Bros fell into bankruptcy and fell into new leadership.
Gallery[]
New York office[]
Tree Hill store[]
See also[]
Trivia[]
- When Brooke first came up with the name "Clothes Over Bro's", Haley pointed out that the apostrophe shouldn't be in the name because it wasn't grammatically correct. However, Brooke said she liked the apostrophe and it was staying. By the time of season five, however, most depictions of the name had dropped the apostrophe.
- The first artwork designs for C/B were made by Peyton, who signed the rights over to Brooke.
- Sam Walker tried to shoplift from the C/B store in Tree Hill, but Brooke caught her in the act. Because of this, Brooke was attacked in the store by a man named Xavier Daniels.