Popular '90s chain Delia's is on life support

Popular '90s chain Delia's is on life support
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In the late 1990s, if you were a teen girl with a mailing address, every few weeks your postman dropped off a Delia's catalog (stylized dELiA*s because remember, this was the '90s). You freaked out, since nothing was more fun than flipping through to see the latest styles that you just had to have. Now, the company is as out of fashion as the butterfly clips and flared jeans it once sold.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.