SchoolUniforms

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Uniforms are increasingly becoming the fashion du jour in America's classrooms, with more school districts across the nation going the dress-code route. Big retailers are seeing sales potential, while families see a chance to save money in shaky economic times.

While retailers of all stripes worry that the recession is curtailing the impact of the crucial back-to-school shopping season, one would think that purveyors of school uniforms would be insulated from the economic downturn.Not true, says the St. Petersburg Times of Florida. Merchants interviewed...