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The Dress Barn, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries operate a chain of women's apparel specialty stores, operating principally under three names: dressbarn, dressbarn woman and maurices. As of July 29, 2006, the Company operated 1,339 stores in 48 states and the District of Columbia, consisting of 575 Combo stores (a combination of dressbarn and dressbarn woman stores), 173 dressbarn stores, 45 dressbarn woman stores and 546 maurices stores. The Company's dressbarn stores are operated mostly in a combination of dressbarn and dressbarn woman stores, or Combo stores, which carry dressbarn and larger-sized dressbarn woman merchandise, as well as freestanding dressbarn and dressbarn woman stores. These stores offer in-season, moderate to better quality career and casual fashion for the working woman. In January 2005, the Company acquired Maurices Incorporated.