o.0 Does anyone know what happened to the Lew Magram women's fashion catalog?

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In the early 90's I used to get their catalog, high quality gorgeous fashionable clothes. For the longest time I could not remember the name Lew Magram. I found some clippings from an old catalog and OMG!!! What a shocker: the clothes are no longer gorgeous and latest fashion, they're all grandma's comfy polyester baggy frumpy clothes like the Blair's catalog!!!! 0.o

Does anyone know what happened? Did they go bankrupt? Googling "Lew Magram" I click on the links and it redirects to "the Fashion Specialists Outlet" even tho it says LewMagram dot net in the address bar. What gives? I know it's been 20 years but still! WTF???

Answer 1

The company is still trading, although I heard that Lew Magram got disillusioned with the fashion world and decided to get out whilst the going was good. Lew had always had a passion for growing zucchinis and that is how he decided to spend the rest of his life. He bought a 40 acre farm in Portland, Oregon, known as Lewcchinis’ Farm.



He handed over the reins of power at his clothing empire to his aged mother who took control with a passion making the entire range of clothes grandma friendly. Their new motto being “You’ll fit right in with the Florida wrinklies in our clothes”.



Lew often wonders what might have been but those thoughts are only fleeting in his mind as he climbs on his tractor and goes to plough his field of dreams.

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In the early 90's I used to get their catalog, high quality gorgeous fashionable clothes. For the longest time I could not remember the name Lew Magram. I found some clippings from an old catalog and OMG!!! What a shocker: the clothes are no longer gorgeous and latest fashion, they're all...

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Answer 4

Actually, they did go bankrupt in 2000, and Alan Fingerhut, of Minnetonka, Minnesota bought the chain. Found this online.

Fingerhut Buys Lew Magram, Brownstone Fingerhut Cos., Minne-tonka, MN, yesterday acquired the Brownstone Studio and Lew Magram catalogs, which both sell women s apparel and accessories. Brownstone and Lew Magram were owned by StyleSite Marketing, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January. Fingerhut purchased assets in a bankruptcy court sale that included inventory, trademarks and customer lists. It is expecting to run the new business under subsidiary Arizona Mail Order Co., Tucson, AZ, which it acquired in August 1998. The merchandising and creative staffs of both catalogs will remain largely intact, and Fingerhut did not acquire warehouses and telemarketing as part of the purchase. This marks the second acquisition by Fingerhut in the women s apparel category in the past two years. In December 1998, it purchased Bedford Fair Industries, giving it the women s apparel catalogs Bedford Fair and Willow Ridge.

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Wow! I had no idea either! Was googling for the catalogue on line but didn't have much luck, as I used to have it delivered and I did shop from there in 2009.

Answer 7

Such a coincidence. I was trying to remember the name too. I went to elementary school with his daughter Melanie around the corner on 54th st. Men's shirts back then!