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Connecticut-based American garment retailer

Robert Hall Clothes, Inc., popularly known as Robert Hall, was an American retailer that flourished circa 1938–1977.

Based in Connecticut, its warehouse-like stores were mostly concentrated in the New York, Chicago and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. According to a Time magazine story in 1949, the corporate name was an invention. The founder and head was garment merchant Jacob Schwab, who "plucked the name out of the air."^[2] It started as a single store in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1937.^[2] Schwab had been treasurer of United Merchants and Manufacturers, the parent company of Robert Hall, since 1922.

 By 1946 Schwab was among the highest-paid executives in America, earning more than $440,000 a year.

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History

In 1937, the company opened as a single store in Waterbury, Connecticut. It gradually expanded to over 350 warehouse-like outlets, based in 36 states. In the mid-1950s,