Research compiled by the Mayo Clinic indicates that 20% of U.S. adolescents – including an estimated 8.5 million teen girls – are overweight. That’s part of the reason Amy Kirschenbaum and Tracey ...

There are catalogs for overweight children, physically challenged people, tall women and short men. Chances are, if you’re out there, there’s a catalog with clothing for you. But Ebony Publications ...

Last spring, Outline, a three-year-old multibrand boutique on Atlantic Avenue in the Boerum Hill neighborhood, replaced its e ...

Spiegel, Inc., and Ebony magazine, responding to a growing black consumer market, said Tuesday that they plan to launch a new clothing catalog for contemporary black women. The nation’s largest ...

Thirty-five years ago, print media was having a renaissance. And the uncontested leader of the medium, with more cultural relevance than most magazines or books, was a clothing catalog, delivered free ...

Beverly, MA-based women’s apparel cataloger/retailer Appleseed’s has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the brand name and customer list of rival cataloger The Tog Shop. Terms of the deal, which ...

Gun Denhart and her husband, Tom, broke all the rules when they began their own business 12 years ago. Without knowing anything about mail order or the children’s clothing industry, they quit their ...

On May 18, 1995, Seinfeld introduced a larger-than-life character into the pop culture consciousness. In “The Understudy,” Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has a chance encounter with J. (Jacopo) Peterman ...

It has been 62 years since Appleseed’s was founded in Beverly, and about 12 years since the women’s clothing retailer closed 17 retail stores – including a successful one in Cohasset – and became ...

Theodore Roosevelt was outfitted by Willis & Geiger for an Alaskan bear-hunting trip. Adm. Richard Byrd wore W&G; duds when he made the first flight over the South Pole. Gen. Douglas MacArthur often ...

American clothing retailer Talbots has utilized Bermuda as a backdrop in their latest catalog, with the island also appearing in photos that the brand has been posting on social media. Founded in 1947 ...