Stuarts Department Stores Unisex Quarter Zip Pullover

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Bring a piece of New England retail history into your everyday wardrobe with this Stuarts Department Stores quarter zip pullover. Founded in 1957, the regional chain grew across New England while developing its own-label merchandise and reshaping its stores. This design honors a locally rooted name remembered by collectors of Massachusetts retail and department-store history. Wear it as a quiet nod to a company whose changing fortunes reflected the ambitions and challenges of regional retail.

Stuarts Department Stores Inc. was founded in New England in 1957. By the time it incorporated in Delaware in 1983, the regional clothing and housewares retailer operated in every New England state, with its main focus in Massachusetts. During the 1980s and 1990s, the chain sought to move beyond its reputation as a reseller of leftover department-store merchandise by investing in its own label. It also spent heavily on a cosmetic overhaul of its properties, adopting a color scheme compared in the source to Bradlees. The company expanded rapidly to 26 outlets, including through its purchase of Harry's of Barre, Vermont, and built a major distribution and office complex in Franklin, Massachusetts. Corporate management instability accompanied these changes, while store-level sales and inventory processes remained manual. Stuarts filed for Chapter 11 protection in December 1990, emerged in October 1992, and filed again in May 1995. It went out of business shortly afterward. Joseph Ettore was identified as president and CEO in 1989.

	XS	S	M	L	XL	2XL	3XL	4XL
Width, in	19.00	20.50	22.00	23.50	25.00	26.50	28.50	30.50
Length, in	27.00	28.00	29.00	30.00	31.00	32.00	32.50	33.00
Sleeve length, in	34.20	35.00	35.75	36.50	37.25	38.00	38.75	39.50