Christian Dior, which sells licensed products in Japan, opened a shop last month in Osaka that sells only imported styles by Gianfranco Ferre, the company's new designer.

In September, Brooks Brothers, home of the baggy boxer, will start selling Lycra bikini briefs and other, racier styles, though the labels are, for now, still on the inside.

Totem, a furniture store in TriBeCa that sells contemporary styles, has moved sale merchandise to its SoHo gallery space at 83 Grand Street (Wooster Street; 212-219-2446).

Now his designs are being sold where he once worked selling styles by others.

As an alternative, Ms. Wolman's Hawaii-based company, Pink Dragon, sells styles that the designer said are "fun to buy and fun to wear."

The shop sells discontinued styles and seconds at a discount as well as the regular offerings seen elsewhere.

The company sells numerous styles of pokers, including one resembling a golf putter that was designed by the company and made at its Long Island City foundry.

And it sells only irregulars and discontinued styles on the Web.

For decades, Garfinckel's earned a reputation for selling classical styles of day and evening wear and serving them up with sterling service.

The furniture stores in the area at that time sold styles which were a cross between Blackpool and back street Soho.