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Motherhood Maternity Clothing

Comments Off 05 June 2009

Motherhood Maternity clothing has only been around since 1993 and is part of the Destination Maternity Corporation.  This company has a few different stores but they are all essentially the same.  These are Motherhood Maternity, A Pea in the Pod, Mimi Maternity and the Destination Maternity stores themselves. This store caters to mother’s to be [...]

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Macy’s Clothing

Comments Off 05 June 2009

Macy’s clothing was first founded in 1858 making it one of the longest running chains in the US.  The largest store is in New York and has been the biggest store in the world since 1924 and is only rivaled by Harrods in London.  People widely recognize the Macys name due to the Thanksgiving Day [...]

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JC Penney Clothing

Comments Off 05 June 2009

JC Penney clothing became for sale in the early 1900s and was based in a few different cities before settling its home base in Buffalo, NY.  They chose Buffalo because at that time, it was easiest to get new goods from the East Coast and New York was simply the best place to be.  This [...]

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Baby Gap Clothing

Comments Off 05 June 2009

Baby Gap clothing is a spinoff of Gap clothing and has all kinds of great clothing and accessories for the little ones in  your family.  This isn’t limited to babies but also toddlers and kids up to about age 4.  The Gap itself has been a popular store since 1969 and appealed to people of [...]

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Gap Kids Clothing

Comments Off 05 June 2009

Gap Kids clothing, similar to Baby Gap clothing is an offshoot of the famous Gap stores that showed up in the late 1960s and spread like wildfire throughout the country.  Gap Kids doesn’t have as many stores as the original Gap clothing store but is still very popular.  This store offers great styles of clothing [...]

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Walmart Clothing

Comments Off 05 June 2009

WalMart Clothing.  Just the name conjures up images of a gigantic mega-store that will have what you need no matter what it could possibly be.  WalMart first opened its doors in 1962 in Arkansas.  Since then, this store has grown faster than any other retail chain out there, especially in the 1990s.  It seemed no [...]

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Kohls Clothing

Comments Off 05 June 2009

You have probably seen a Kohls clothing and accessory store once or twice while driving around but you may not have stopped or don’t know exactly what they carry.  These stores are very large and carry an enormous amount of clothing and shoes but also have a great selection of bedding, jewelry, electronics, household goods, [...]

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Limited Too Clothing

Comments Off 05 June 2009

Limited Too clothing has a very rich history and is a branch of the very famous Limited Brands company that was sold not too long ago to Tween Brands.  Limited Brands has actually been around since 1963 and you are guaranteed to recognize some of the brands that were originally spawned by this company.  Some [...]

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Justice Clothing

Comments Off 04 June 2009

Justice Clothing is a branch of Tween Brands, Inc who also run Limited Too.  Tween Brands, Inc first launched these two stores in 2004 with Limited Too being found in malls quite a bit and Justice being found in smaller strip malls and shopping districts as it’s a little bigger and has more to offer.  [...]

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Lane Bryant Clothing

Comments Off 04 June 2009

Lane Bryant clothing has been around since the early 1900s.  The creator of this store was named Lena  Bryant .  It was actually due to a typo that the name became “Lane”.  Her first shop was opened on Fifth Avenue and was soon specialized to carry mostly plus sized clothing and maternity wear.  In the [...]

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Forever 21 Clothing

Comments Off 04 June 2009

Forever 21 clothing first showed up on the scene in LA back in 1984. The very first store was very small but is still in operation today under the name Fashion 21 as it was originally called. In 6 months, they changed the name to Forever instead of Fashion. This store did tremendously well and [...]

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Deb Clothing

Comments Off 04 June 2009

Deb clothing was founded way back in 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was a hosiery/lingerie shop that ran under the name JOY Hosiery.  It wasn’t until the 1970s that the company was renamed Deb Shops and became exclusive for women and girls.  This is a specialty chain that has over 300 stores in 42 states.  [...]

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Torrid Clothing

Comments Off 04 June 2009

Torrid clothes are the plus size specialty branch of Hot Topic clothing and first began popping up in malls in 2001.  The first store was opened in California but now there are over 170 stores spread across the US.  They are such a popular place for young people to shop that it can be hard [...]

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North Face Clothing

Comments Off 03 June 2009

In 1968, two years after an idea was formed on a beach only 150 ft. above sea level in California’s North Beach neighborhood, North Face began to not only sell outdoor clothing, but began designing their own mountaineering clothing. The goal? To supply outdoor adventurers with quality North Face clothing specific to the needs of [...]

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White House Black Market Clothing

Comments Off 03 June 2009

White House Black Market Clothing began as a combination of The White House and Black Market. Because both lines had been successful, the concepts of white and ivory clothing from the White House and black and white clothing from Black Market were combined in 1997. In September 2003, the White House Black Market line became [...]

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Metropark Clothing

Comments Off 03 June 2009

Metropark Clothing reams from Los Angeles and specializes in fashion for both men and women. The essence of this store is to combine fashion with art and music in order to appeal to younger adults. Since the first store opened in 2004, this brand has become popular with young Americans and has developed a strong [...]

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