Children and Juniors Apparel

Duality. Utility. Form meets fashion. Isn't that how many of our sportswear trends are developing these days? Shirts that work. Jackets that move. And now we have colors that captivate and catapult us out of harm's way.

Retailer The Children's Place has pulled a T-shirt from its stores after coming under fire this week for an imprint some have called sexist. The girls' shirt shows a list of "My Best Subjects," and features checkmarks next to shopping, music and dancing, but not math.

A month or two from now, many of us will be delivering orders for this year's back-to-school programs. As we're selling those programs, we need to keep that feeling of what it's like to be the new kid on the block in the back of our minds.

The Bon-Ton Stores Inc., the Milwaukee and York, Pennsylvania-based operator of Boston Store, Younkers and other department store chains, has agreed to pay $450,000 to resolve allegations that it failed to tell federal regulators that it sold products recalled in 2010.

Under the civil penalty agreement with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Bon-Ton denies agency staff allegations that the retailer knowingly violated the law. Bon-Ton was accused of failing to report to the agency immediately, as required by federal law, that its children’s hooded jackets and sweatshirts were sold with drawstrings through the hood.

There's a new epidemic spreading throughout Hollywood-many celebrities have caught baby fever (and to the best of my knowledge this has nothing to do with 50 Shades of Grey). 

The news talks about everything endangering our children: toxic toys, fattening fast food, etc. Yet no one addresses the real threat: kids' awful taste in clothing.

Following two-years of acquisition integration, Russell Newman Brands, one of the world’s largest privately held sleepwear, loungewear and intimate apparel companies, has completed its reorganization and is now led by soft goods’ veterans who are managing the company as a single organization comprising a portfolio of respected brands and private label offerings and driving for a single vision of success.

BroderBros. Co., Trevose, Pa., announced the company has become a full-line supplier of the complete Anvil collection and will carry all of the styles, colors and sizes the brand offers. This includes T-shirts, fleece, sport shirts, hats, bags and towels.

River's End Trading Company, Hopkins, Minn., announced the association between it and PremiumWear Inc., Minnetonka, Minn., has now been finalized. River’s End Trading Company has acquired the rights to Page & Tuttle and the license for the Forsyth brand for the promotional products and golf industry in the U.S.