Stock-Based Compensation - Performance Share Awards and Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Unit Awards (Details) - $ / shares	3 Months Ended
Feb. 03, 2017	Jan. 29, 2016
Performance Share Awards
Stock-Based Compensation
Frequency of grants	On an annual basis in the first quarter of the company's fiscal year
Performance goal period	3 years
Award vesting period	3 years
Weighted-Average Fair Value at Date of Grant
Granted (in dollars per share)	$ 54.52	$ 38.89
Performance Share Awards \| Maximum
Stock-Based Compensation
Vesting (as a percent)	200.00%
Performance Share Awards \| Minimum
Stock-Based Compensation
Vesting (as a percent)	0.00%
Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Unit Awards
Weighted-Average Fair Value at Date of Grant
Granted (in dollars per share)	$ 56.67	$ 38.62
Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Unit Awards \| Graded vesting
Stock-Based Compensation
Vesting (as a percent)	33.333%
Award vesting period	3 years
Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Unit Awards \| Cliff vesting
Stock-Based Compensation
Award vesting period	3 years

Represents grant frequency of equity-based compensation awards.

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Represents the period over which performance goals of the entity are vested.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
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The weighted average fair value at grant date for nonvested equity-based awards issued during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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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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Percentage of vesting of share-based compensation awards.

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