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Most consumers know what sizes they wear. They no longer need to have the tactile experience that once made consumers cautious about buying apparel online.
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We have not seen a new phenomenon hit the licensed apparel market like this before.
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Nobody's really busting the doors down to buy women's apparel this fall selling season. Women's dress and casual footwear is probably the strongest I've seen in a good six or seven years.
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Retail sales were pretty good, considering at the start of the season we were looking at $3 gasoline and were still recovering from the hurricanes. Consumers got out early and responded to early-bird specials, but there wasn't much new. There was no hot toy or hot apparel look.
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Nike's business is healthy in every area except one, ... We are enjoying strong results in all of our international regions, and in U.S. apparel and equipment; however, our U.S. footwear business continues to pose challenges.
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We'll emphasize better classic apparel while highlighting our strong appliance, electronics and home improvement merchandise,
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We are pleased that sales in core businesses such as lawn and garden, tools and apparel have shown signs of strengthening, especially considering the difficult economic environment,
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The fact that apparel was one of the more dominant product categories shows that consumers have a high comfort level with buying online.
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We think apparel is where we have the greatest opportunity now. It is an embarrassingly small part of our business, and we feel we have a lot of potential there. Jim Davis
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What we're seeing now is more saturation in the market. When we started making skate apparel 15 years ago, this was a small market. Ken Block
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We see major headwinds for Kellwood, more than any other apparel company. We believe its problems are mostly brand and distribution problems, and we don't expect these problems to reverse.
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While weather played a role in soft apparel sales, the high energy prices impacted overall sales. Net-net, the climate is likely to get better with improvements in the labor market.
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Once the apparel line gets rolling and you have a couple other major endorsements her earning could reach 30-40 million dollars a year. There is such a shortage of women in the market place. Brandon Steiner
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Inflation is obviously a little bit higher than expected. Food and apparel were up. This is not going to stand in the way of further Fed easing.
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The U.S. has been using its right under China's WTO accession to invoke safeguards in cases of market disruption or the threat of market disruption. However, our preference is to seek a longer-term solution that will permit the orderly development of textile and apparel trade.
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They are now getting into the apparel business in a way they have not known before -- in a way that establishes Sears Roebuck as a major operation in apparel.
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They (Reebok) got a wake-up call in terms of Nike's announcement in terms of recognizing the need to improve the fashion content of their apparel business.
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Investors should be excited about teen apparel stocks because most of the merchants in that space are competing for a huge $70 billion pie. Whereas the overall retail apparel space is suffering from overcapacity and increasing competition, the teen space is really a niche segment of that pie and has a lot more room to grow.
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In what is traditionally a clearance month, sales were up in our principal clothing categories, with women's ready to wear, children's and men's apparel all reporting sales gains, ... Outerwear finally benefited from winter's late arrival, with a sizable improvement over last year.
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If the quotas are eliminated, we expect a large shift in textiles and apparel production to China. Daniel Barry
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If Kmart decides apparel is critical, and it can make it a success, it needs to do what Target has done: Present great designs that are unique, well priced and well presented. Otherwise, this will fall flat on its face,
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The huge increases at apparel and general merchandise stores are eye-opening. You would think people had nothing to do but get to the malls.
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And that drove increased customer visit frequency. And what Wal-Mart found was that while they got extra sales from food, the real benefits were what it did to their general merchandise and apparel business, which has higher margins. Phil Jamieson
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The two weak links in the store are apparel and consumer electronics. One could have had a nice nap in the consumer electronics section given the light traffic. Conversely, appliances were buzzing.
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Denim will continue to be the staple item found in everyone's shopping bags. With prices for electronics declining, consumers will get to spend a little more on apparel this year.
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Apparel sales are mirroring the spending habits of consumers in the offline world more and more.
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Apparel retailers were showing strong double-digit increases over last year. Jewelry retailers also showed strong sales,
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Apparel remains one of the more dominant product categories during the holiday season, mirroring offline holiday retail behavior.
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Apparel prices have been trending down for years, thanks in part to downward pressure on import prices.
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Apparel is a category that hadn't yet seen a trigger to boost sales. Rule of thumb is if you see consumers wearing coats, hats and gloves when they're in a department store like Macy's, that's probably what they'll also be looking to buy. And we're seeing that. Paul Walsh
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Apparel is a category that hadn't yet seen a trigger to boost sales, ... Rule of thumb is if you see consumers wearing coats, hats and gloves when they're in a department store like Macy's, that's probably what they'll also be looking to buy. And we're seeing that.
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Apparel companies are tired of getting their face beat in when they try fashion leadership so they're going back to the old stuff. It worked 10 to 20 years ago. Eric Gordon
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Sales of men's apparel has been lagging for some time. Men usually don't shop as frequently as women. When they do, there's only so much of casual clothes men really need.