Dress Barn - Fashion Company Profile

Company Profile

The farewell notice that heads the record below - 'May 2019: Dressbarn is closing all stores' - was the end of the store chain, not of the name, and the snapshot above states the position since the relaunch so the two are not confused. The store-era record, its 2009 scale and the tween-brands merger are kept in full on the history page.

The historical record begins in 1962, when Roslyn Jaffe opened the first Dress Barn retail store. The founding belongs against its moment: at a time when women were wholly underrepresented in the workplace, Roslyn dared not only to work, but to launch a new era in women's fashion - designer label wool pencil skirts, sheer blouses, flares, furs and leather coats were all the rage, and Roslyn offered her customers the very latest in women's designer styles. A year later the second dressbarn store opened; soon after, her husband Elliot joined her, and together they built the business and a reputation for quality, style, value and customer service. In 1983 dressbarn's stock was introduced on the NASDAQ Exchange. The retail identity as recorded is a national specialty apparel retailer offering quality career and casual fashion apparel through its dressbarn and maurices brands, with its own private labels and contemporary fashions at great value in a friendly, trustworthy environment.