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Long-Lived Assets And Operating Lease Right Of Use Assets, Fair Value Disclosure

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Tangible Asset, Measurement Input

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Amount after accumulated impairment loss of an asset representing future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.

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Total loss recognized during the period from the impairment of goodwill plus the loss recognized in the period resulting from the impairment of the carrying amount of intangible assets, other than goodwill.

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Fair value portion of asset representing the future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.

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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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The aggregate amount of write-downs for impairments recognized during the period for long lived assets held for use (including those held for disposal by means other than sale).

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Amount of assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, lacking physical substance and having a projected indefinite period of benefit.

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Fair value portion of assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, that lack physical substance, having a projected indefinite period of benefit.

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Amount of loss from impairment of right-of-use asset from operating lease.

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Fair Value Measurements - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Jan. 30, 2021	May 02, 2020	Jan. 30, 2021	Feb. 01, 2020	Feb. 02, 2019
Goodwill [Line Items]
Trademark	$ 5,000,000		$ 5,000,000
Long-lived assets and operating lease assets at retail stores	89,588,000		89,588,000
Goodwill	16,360,000		16,360,000	$ 96,774,000
Long-lived asset store impairment	5,000,000		5,000,000	38,930,000
Goodwill and intangible impairment			114,300,000	0	$ 0
Impairment of long lived assets			29,700,000
Right of use asset impairment and write-off	1,200,000	$ 1,800,000	4,795,000	1,065,000	$ 0
Capitalized Implementation Costs
Goodwill [Line Items]
Impairment of long lived assets			12,100,000
Chico's Reporting Unit
Goodwill [Line Items]
Goodwill	16,400,000		16,400,000
Goodwill	16,360,000		16,360,000	36,403,000
WHBM Reporting Unit
Goodwill [Line Items]
Goodwill	0.0	$ 0	0.0
Goodwill	0		0	60,371,000
Chico's Franchise Rights
Goodwill [Line Items]
Goodwill	0.0		0.0
Goodwill				4,900,000
Long-lived asset store impairment	0		$ 0	$ 4,930,000
Impairment of long lived assets	$ 200,000
Minimum \| Weighted-average cost of capital
Goodwill [Line Items]
Long lived asset measurement input	11.00%		11.00%
Minimum \| Weighted-average cost of capital \| Trade Name
Goodwill [Line Items]
Intangible asset measurement input	13.00%		13.00%
Minimum \| Long-term revenue growth rate \| Trade Name
Goodwill [Line Items]
Intangible asset measurement input	(1.00%)		(1.00%)
Long lived asset measurement input	2.00%		2.00%
Maximum \| Weighted-average cost of capital
Goodwill [Line Items]
Long lived asset measurement input	13.00%		13.00%
Maximum \| Weighted-average cost of capital \| Trade Name
Goodwill [Line Items]
Intangible asset measurement input	15.00%		15.00%
Maximum \| Long-term revenue growth rate \| Trade Name
Goodwill [Line Items]
Intangible asset measurement input	16.00%		16.00%
Long lived asset measurement input	53.00%		53.00%