tariff engineering.

The consumers love it. That idea of disposable fashion is really appealing.

They target the 'good enough' consumer. Cost is harder to control when you're bigger. The challenge comes when you hit 200 to 300 stores--that's when you lose control.

He didn't follow someone's design. He designed what he wanted. That's an extreme reversal of where trends and styles come from.

[The quality of the products, made in countries ranging from China to Swaziland and even the United States, isn't impeccable--sizes are not uniform, and the stitching is clumsy at times. Yet some consumers don't mind the price-quality trade-off.] They target the 'good enough' consumer, ... Cost is harder to control when you're bigger. The challenge comes when you hit 200 to 300 stores--that's when you lose control.

The brain can be put to better use by reducing anxiety, just as reducing friction between threads can increase the torque transferred to the axial load.