Less than a month after announcing it would close up to 10 stores, a plus-sized women's clothing retailer has filed for bankruptcy.
Fashion to Figure filed for Chapter 11 Monday in federal court in Newark, according to court papers. It has 23 stores in seven states, including three in New Jersey.
The company didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from NJ Advance Media.
Fashion to Figure's CEO Michael Kaplan told NYPost.com in October that the company made a mistake in expanding into malls too quickly at a time when the retail business was changing.
Kaplan is the great-grandson of Lena Bryant, who rolled out the first plus-sized clothing with the founding of Lane Bryant.
The chain's remaining New Jersey locations are Jersey Gardens in Elizabeth, the Quaker Bridge Mall in Lawrence and the Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill.
They previously had a store in the Livingston Mall.
Other locations are in Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts and New York.
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