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accessories for teenage girls. The Arden B. stores provided feminine, contemporary collections of fashion separates and accessories until 2015. Blink stores focused on denim products for the same teenage girl demographic as Wet Seal but with store sizes of 1,600 square feet (150 m) versus the 4,000 square feet (370 m) of Wet Seal. It also operated web-based stores, which included www.thewetseal.com that offered Wet Seal merchandise; and www.ardenb.com, which offered Arden B apparel and accessories. As of
January 30, 2010, the company operated 504 retail stores in 47 states, including 424 Wet Seal stores and 80 Arden B stores. The Wet Seal, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is based in
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African American employees who they thought did not fit the company's brand image which is the "Armani look, white, blond hair and blue
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