113 Quotes About Apparel

Specialty apparel is a very fast-moving business. It's also a fickle business of fashion and creativity where the winners are those retailers who can constantly reinvent themselves and their products.

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.

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.

The stock trade about 17.5 times 2003 earnings. That's at a premium compared with the other apparel companies out there but it's also growing faster than the other companies.

I spend a lot of time in American Apparel.

Consumers are wearing this year what they wore last year. We're already seeing a slowdown in apparel and accessories and that's a pretty bad barometer going into the winter season.

As much as 85 percent of U.S. households go to Wal-Mart and we get 100 million visitors a week at the stores. Yet everyone who goes there buys consumables but not apparel or electronics, which are two huge categories, ... We want to complete the shopping experience for our loyal customers and as well as appeal to a different kind of customer.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

The apparel industry has for years failed in its old role as a fashion leader, so they've run up the white flag. They're saying, 'Well, at least we're the leader of the old stuff. Won't you come back and see us again?