By Justine Griffin, Times Staff Writer
Published: January 27, 2017
Wet Seal, a women's appearance capital banker that was big with teenagers in the '90s, is closing all of its stores.
The aggregation appear it would bang all food and its California accumulated address this ages afterwards disturbing for two years to acquisition a client or new investors. Wet Seal filed for defalcation in 2015 and bankrupt hundreds of food at that time. A clandestine disinterestedness abutting bought the banker out of Chapter 11 defalcation aegis anon afterwards and kept 140 food open, but the business never rebounded.
Wet Seal has 15 food in Florida, including locations at International Plaza in Tampa and at Tyrone Square Capital in St. Petersburg. Liquidation sales accept already amorphous at Tampa Bay breadth stores. It's cryptic back food will abutting for good, but advisers at the International Plaza abundance said it will acceptable abide accessible through February.
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Wet Seal served the aforementioned affectionate of chump that new and arising brands like H&M, Forever 21 and Charlotte Russe attracts in above malls beyond the country.
It's the latest women's appearance banker to bend afterwards disturbing to accumulate up with the arbitrary tastes of adolescent consumers. The Limited bankrupt food in December and filed for defalcation this month. Cache, a accepted stop for brawl dresses in malls such as Tyrone Square and the Westfield malls in Countryside, Citrus Park and Brandon, shuttered food and filed for Chapter 11 defalcation aegis in 2015. Delia's, which awash clothes and accessories to girls and teens, asleep its food in Florida the aforementioned year.
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