History Of Dress Barn

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History of dress barn. Most of our locations are located in or around major metro areas nationwide. He approached his wife roslyn with an idea for a women s discounted apparel store and the two decided to begin planning a test store. How a top niche player in the rag trade is coping with the campeau crunch.

We offer our current name brand apparel and 20 to 50 percent off department store prices. Sizing up small caps barron s august 1 1994 p. Early years the beginnings of the dress barn can be traced to 1962 when elliot jaffe was working as a merchandising manager for macy s department store in connecticut.

Its largest chain justice courts tweens at nearly 850 stores and online. Blair adam dress barn s catalog and e commerce mix wwd august 18 1999 p. History of the dress.

About the dress barn inc ascena retail group operates more than 3 500 specialty stores throughout the us puerto rico and canada. The first dressbarn opened in february 1962 in stamford connecticut by roslyn jaffe. Founded in 1962 we now have over 700 locations nationwide.

The clothing chain which is operated by ascena retail group in mahwah n j. The company began trading on nasdaq symbol dbrn in 1982. And owns lane bryant ann taylor and other apparel outlets announced in may that it planned to close its dressbarn.