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Percentage, excluding tax collected from customer, of revenue from satisfaction of performance obligation by transferring promised good or service to customer. Tax collected from customer is tax assessed by governmental authority that is both imposed on and concurrent with specific revenue-producing transaction, including, but not limited to, sales, use, value added and excise.

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The period of time the Company allows customers to return merchandise.

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Amount of liability for consideration received or receivable from customer which is not included in transaction price, when consideration is expected to be refunded to customer, classified as current.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 606
-SubTopic 10
-Section 55
-Paragraph 27
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=118944142&loc=SL49130611-203046-203046

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Amount of right to recover product from customer on settling refund liability, classified as current.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Returns and Disaggregation of Revenue (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Feb. 01, 2020	Feb. 02, 2019	Feb. 03, 2018
Revenue, initial application period, cumulative effect transition
Period of time company allows customers to return merchandise	30 days
Estimated refund liability	$ 0.3	$ 0.3
Carrying value of return asset	0.1	0.2
Distribution center costs	$ 20.8	$ 17.6	$ 17.4
Accessories
Revenue, initial application period, cumulative effect transition
Revenue from contracts with customers disaggregated by major product line (as a percent)	32.00%	32.00%
Accessories \| Calculated under revenue guidance in effect before topic 606
Revenue, initial application period, cumulative effect transition
Revenue from contracts with customers disaggregated by major product line (as a percent)			32.00%
Children's
Revenue, initial application period, cumulative effect transition
Revenue from contracts with customers disaggregated by major product line (as a percent)	23.00%	23.00%
Children's \| Calculated under revenue guidance in effect before topic 606
Revenue, initial application period, cumulative effect transition
Revenue from contracts with customers disaggregated by major product line (as a percent)			23.00%
Ladies'
Revenue, initial application period, cumulative effect transition
Revenue from contracts with customers disaggregated by major product line (as a percent)	22.00%	22.00%
Ladies' \| Calculated under revenue guidance in effect before topic 606
Revenue, initial application period, cumulative effect transition
Revenue from contracts with customers disaggregated by major product line (as a percent)			23.00%
Men's
Revenue, initial application period, cumulative effect transition
Revenue from contracts with customers disaggregated by major product line (as a percent)	16.00%	17.00%
Men's \| Calculated under revenue guidance in effect before topic 606
Revenue, initial application period, cumulative effect transition
Revenue from contracts with customers disaggregated by major product line (as a percent)			17.00%
Home
Revenue, initial application period, cumulative effect transition
Revenue from contracts with customers disaggregated by major product line (as a percent)	7.00%	6.00%
Home \| Calculated under revenue guidance in effect before topic 606
Revenue, initial application period, cumulative effect transition
Revenue from contracts with customers disaggregated by major product line (as a percent)			5.00%