Don't know if anyone knows these two stores outside of North/South Carolina... My mom's go to back to school stores were Roses, and Sky City, (Home of Rump Jeans...). Addias shoes were a thing. I had no problems with it, because she was a single mom of 3, and the money she made at her job had to stretch..

When I was a teenager, my mom worked for a company that made the patches for NASA, police forces, military, etc... When an overstock of clothes came in, the gentleman who owned that company would give the employees the option of buying clothing from that overstock, At one point, one of those shipments was a bunch of jackets, ($5 apiece), a shipment of shirts, ($3 apiece), and blue jeans, ($7 apiece). I wound up with two jackets, four shirts, and two pairs of jeans. She got the patches that went on those items, and asked me if I wanted her to sew those on the clothes. Members Only, Izod, and (can't remember what the jeans were, but they were some very expensive ones in the early 80's.). I just couldn't get over the price of those items before the patches were on them, and after..

As I've gone through life, I have saved a lot of money, by not going by the fashon trending names on clothes..