Dresses

As a retailer, you may choose to stock sizes appropriate for your preferred consumer base. You may find it beneficial to choose a variety of sizes to get the most from your consumer base. Consequently, you will find Julie Ann apparel carried a wide selection of sizes for you to choose from.

Junior Sizes

The junior sizes at Julie Ann are perfect for the woman with the smaller physique, or the younger ladies who may visit your storefront. Wrapper, JFW, A-List, and Mlle Gabrielle are just a few of the popular fashion designers offering something more for you, your storefront, and your consumer base.

These designs are specifically constructed with your junior sized audience in mind.

Missy Sizes

The missy sizes at Julie Ann are specifically designed for the “average” sized woman. Sometimes, this category may overlap plus sizes or junior sizes. This is a large category of ladies fashion apparel here at Julie Ann. There are popular fashion designers such as Nicola, Danielle, AKC, JLC, Central Dog, and A-List.

These are some of the most highly sought after fashion designers in the industry today, and your missy size consumer base will appreciate the extra touches you offer with this fashion designers.

Plus Sizes

The plus sizes at Julie Ann are a favorite! These are some of the most innovative, fresh designs on the market today. Each time you shop for these plus sizes, you will find something new targeting your specific plus size consumer base. AKC, Piano, Larry Levine, Allison Brittney, and Carolyn Taylor are just a few of the popular plus size fashion designers offering their superior quality to you and your storefront.

As an owner of a retail women’s clothing store, it’s important to have something that sets you apart from the nearest discount chains. What can retailers do to keep customers shopping locally? These days people aren’t going as far from home for leisure activities, like shopping. This is an incredible asset to local retailers, but from there, the work is only half done. Once people begin shopping in their hometowns, how can we entice them to buy?

Every woman wants the latest brand name apparel, but it can be hard to provide quality goods on a slim profit margin. Luckily, luxury brand name items are becoming more and more accessible to wholesale clothing distributors.

Goods with high brand name recognition are a good start. For instance, any large mall will have a Bebe, or Steve Madden store. You can give your store that same air of retail authority by stocking a small selection of Bebe tops, or Steve Madden purses all in your store. If your customers know that you are the only place in town that they can get luxury goods, they’ll spread the word quickly.

Another benefit of stocking brand name goods comes in the fact that it can give you an edge in the niche market of brand name apparel. Bigger chains like Wal-Mart or Target won’t carry items like these, so you can set your store apart easily with just a few select pieces.

It’s worth it to look for brand name goods, but as a word of caution, be sure they’re authentic before buying. Any reputable distributor will give you information verifying the authenticity, or you can ask to see the designer’s brand label on the product itself. Usually knockoffs won’t have these.

Pictures Speak a Thousand Words

Pictured above, believe it nor not, is Sharon Stone at age fifty. If you’ve never believed in clothing that makes women look younger, seeing is believing!

In her denim jacket, black pants, and stylish blouse, Sharon Stone doesn’t look a day over thirty.

Mature women all over the world would do anything to turn back the hands of time, and with clothing that makes women look younger, now they can!

In 2008, mature women can look younger without cosmetic procedures, grueling athletic routines, and pills and creams that essentially do nothing but drain our pocketbook’s.

What can women do to look younger, healthier, and happier?

They can dress in clothing that makes them look younger and feel younger.

Julie Ann Apparel offers a huge selection of wholesale clothing to women of all ages, shapes, and sizes. If you’ve ever wanted to look younger, look older, look thinner, look curvier, or look like a celebrity – let our women’s apparel do all the work for you!

I’ve been in the Wholesale Clothing business for over 30 years and I don’t remember it ever being easy.

Business is not easy. All you have to do is read the headlines and you can see that.

What do you do?

I would ask myself if I am in business to be in business, or am I in business for a hobby. If this is your hobby….I would get out, and take up another.

This is a time for serious business people. A time for action and not for idleness.

Are you ready for ACTION???

If you are…read on…

2008 is in the books and there’s nothing we can do. Don’t look back….remember it, but look ahead.

Hunker Down!

Take inventory of everything, and I don’t mean just your Wholesale Apparel Inventory.

Look at every expense from your employees to your phone, insurance, rent and see where you can save.

If we are in a recession and I believe we are then get your overhead in line with your sales.

Most Important! Choose the right Expenses to cut. Don’t cut an expense that can lead to a sale.

Advertising is normally a larger expense, and is easy to cut on paper…But is it the right one?

Probably not.  I would take a hard look at it, try to evaluate if you are getting the right bang for the buck, but this is not a place that I would cut.

This is what separates Hobbyists from Business people. Business people are willing to make the tough decisions necessary to compete; Hobbyists watch, and put off those decisions.

We are in a fight, but I believe if we act smart, we will find out that this is more of an opportunity than we think

Pink is fashion’s shade for all seasons

Forget it. It’s the shade clothes-conscious New York women will be draping themselves in all year long.

The candy color has already been in the spotlight. Stunning starlets Emily Blunt, Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks were pretty in pink on the cover of Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood issue.

And at the Oscars on Sunday, Cameron Diaz presented herself in a sexy Christian Dior gown by Galliano (and pink Bulgari diamonds) to hand out an award. She stumbled while pronouncing the word “cinematography,” but sheathing herself in blush was no misstep.

Pink’s most powerful booster shot comes from “Sex and the City,” the most hotly anticipated movie by New Yorkers to open all year long.

The poster for the film, which arrives May 30, shows Sarah Jessica Parker glowing in a bubblegum-colored dress.

It’s a hot pink number that would turn Barbie green with envy, and it has to be in style if SJP’s alter ego, Carrie Bradshaw – a part-time columnist and full-time fashionista – is wearing it.

“Pink pops whether it’s on a poster or in the office,” says stylist Mary Alice Stephenson. “It always looks fresh and young.”

For a movie that opens at the end of May, the color of New York’s blooming roses makes perfect sense.

But pink isn’t a passing parade. Judging by looks that were seen on runways recently at fall fashion shows in Europe, the coral cavalcade is not going to fade.

Autumn fashions – typically teeming with deep, dark and earthy hues – are a veritable garden of rose, poppy and fuchsia. Even salmon (yikes!) was on the color menu.

John Galliano’s Paris show put lots of pink ladies in the spotlight. There were studded petal pink frocks, shoes and headbands with shimmery jewels, along with sheaths and purses in magenta.

In Milan, Veronique Leroy marched out pink leather skirts – eat your heart out, Elle Woods – while Donatella Versace sent out flirty powder pink frocks and deep rose ones emboldened with kicky patterns.