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DRESSBARN MAURICES
NEWS RELEASE

DRESS BARN, INC. TO PRESENT AT ROTH CAPITAL PARTNERS
18TH ANNUAL GROWTH STOCK CONFERENCE


SUFFERN, NY - FEBRUARY 16, 2006 - Dress Barn, Inc. (NASDAQ - DBRN), a leading national specialty apparel retailer offering quality career and casual fashion apparel through its dressbarn and maurices brands, today announced that it will be presenting at the Roth Capital Partners 18th Annual Growth Stock Conference.

The presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time at The St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort and Spa at Dana Point, CA. The presentation will be webcast live http://www.wsw.com/webcast/roth7/dbrn/.

ABOUT DRESS BARN, INC.
 
Dress Barn, Inc. (NASDAQ - DBRN), is a leading national specialty apparel retailer offering quality career and casual fashion apparel through its dressbarn and maurices brands. As of January 28, 2006, the Company operated 786 dressbarn stores in 45 states and 510 maurices stores in 39 states. For more information, please visit www.dressbarn.com and www.maurices.com.

 
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
 

Certain statements made in this press release are not historical in nature and are “forward-looking statements”, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. The Company does not undertake to publicly update or review its forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that our projected results expressed or implied will not be achieved. Detailed information concerning a number of factors as they relate to dressbarn’s operations that could cause actual results to differ materially from the information is readily available on our most recent report on Form 10-K for the year ending July 30, 2005 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 29, 2005. Such factors as they relate to maurices include risks applicable to the retail apparel business in general and risks which may be applicable to maurices’ business. In addition, there are risks associated with the integration of two businesses.

 
CONTACT:
The Dress Barn, Inc.
 
Investor Relations
 
(845) 369-4600