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Peck & Peck was a New York-based retailer of private label women's wear prominent on Fifth Avenue.〔(TIME article detailing retail stores that have failed on Fifth Avenue )〕 Founded by Edgar Wallace Peck and his brother George H. Peck,〔(NYT Wedding Notice of Dorothy Peck, granddaughter of founder )〕 it began in New York in 1888〔(Search on Peck & Peck Trademark Registration )〕 as a hosiery store, with early location near Madison Square.〔(Essay titled Fifth Avenue - The Best Address by Jerry E. Patterson )〕 At Edgar Peck's death, ''Time'' magazine reported that the brothers once had to pay rent every 24 hours to a distrusting landlord,〔"Milestones", ''Time'', November 5, 1928〕 but now had 19 stores.〔(Milestones Time magazine column noting Edgar Peck's 1928 death )〕 It grew to 78 stores across the United States. Peck & Peck was purchased in the 1970s by the Minneapolis-based retailing company Salkin & Linoff and, through a combination of poor management and widely decentralized locations, the chain was basically shut down and sold off in pieces.〔(St. Louis Park Historical Society - Salkin and Linoff )〕 Some specific store locations of the chain were sold by Salkin & Linoff in the mid/late 1980s to H. C. Prange Co. of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Peck & Peck was known for its classic clothes. Like Bonwit Teller and B. Altman and Company's post–World War II fashions, Peck & Peck personified and flourished in the pre-hippie era in New York〔(Book review on ''In The Place To Be'' by Guy Trebay ). ISBN 1-56639-208-X〕 when WASP fashion ruled stores and fashion magazines.〔(Gadfly Online article detailing Peck & Peck's devotion to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants )〕 To writers like Joan Didion, Peck & Peck was descriptor and shorthand for a certain fashion look.〔(Essay titled ''On Keeping a Notebook'' by Joan Didion )〕 A store classic was the simple A-line dress. Other fashion retailers that grew in the wake of the closure of Peck & Peck were Ann Taylor and Talbots. Since 2008 the Peck & Peck trademark is owned by Stein Mart for its line of woman's clothing. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peck & Peck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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