Income Taxes (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Feb. 02, 2013	Jan. 28, 2012	Jan. 29, 2011
Earnings (loss) before income taxes:
Domestic	$ 63,429	$ 39,880	$ 16,733
Foreign	(12,540)	3,644	4,042
Earnings from continuing operations before income taxes	50,889	43,524	20,775
Current:
Federal	21,682	8,306	5,649
State	2,365	652	2,162
Foreign	(724)	285	1,698
Total current	23,323	9,243	9,509
Deferred-primarily Federal	(3,271)	5,385	(4,637)
Deferred-Foreign	(480)	(347)	(332)
Income Taxes	$ 19,572	$ 14,281	$ 4,540
Reconciliations of the United States federal statutory income tax rates and effective tax rates
Statutory rate (as a percent)	35.00%	35.00%	35.00%
State income taxes-net of federal income tax benefit (as a percent)	3.00%	2.30%	0.50%
Impact of foreign operations (as a percent)	3.30%	(1.90%)	(0.80%)
Valuation allowance against foreign losses and other carryforwards (as a percent)	4.10%	(0.10%)	(3.00%)
Change in contingency reserves related to unrecognized tax benefits (as a percent)	(3.70%)	(1.20%)	(6.60%)
Impact of permanent differences related to life insurance investments	(0.60%)	(0.90%)	(2.20%)
Impact of federal tax credits	(1.00%)	(1.10%)	(2.10%)
Permanent reduction of available carryforwards			2.00%
Change in enacted tax rates and apportionment of income among jurisdictions (as a percent)	(1.10%)	(0.60%)	(2.50%)
Change in assertion on permanent reinvestment of foreign earnings	(1.90%)
Other, net (as a percent)	1.40%	1.30%	1.60%
Effective rate for continuing operations (as a percent)	38.50%	32.80%	21.90%