Ohrbach's

Ohrbach's was a low-priced clothing chain, with its flagship store located at Union Square in New York City. The company also had home offices in Newark and Los Angeles, but eventually closed the Newark office in the 1970s. Paul Laszlo designed the Union Square store as well as many of their other stores.

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The chain, which had stores across the country, was open from 1923 until the flagship store went out of business in 1987. Ohrbach's became famous nationwide in the 1960s with low-priced copies of European haute couture, which was modeled in front of millions of viewers on soap operas like Dark Shadows and The Secret Storm.

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The company was bought out by Howland-Steinbach in June 1986 and reopened the stores under the Howland-Steinbach banner on February 1, 1987.

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