They have a website:
Women's Clothing: pants shirts jackets sweaters at Christopher & Banks
Those are grandma clothes, lol.
And yeah, we don't have a Mervyns (they went out of business here) or JCPenney's near where I live--Macy's is closest, and I like the clearance racks
I'm a major bargain shopper, but I buy for value over time. Usually I just buy my pants at Costco or Fred Meyers (which is sort of like a grocery/clothing/discount store rolled into one) and my tops at Target or Fred Meyers. Those $40 jeans at Macy's? You can get the same brand at Costco for half the price or less--but the downside is that you have to know your size in that brand because there's no way to try them on in the middle of the warehouse.
Wow...totally got off the point of the OP, but here's an observation on the same note--I don't buy new clothes when I don't have a lot of extra money. Perhaps these women in the OP are going through economic hardship and can't spare the cash to buy clothes that fit. Shoot, even the prices at Goodwill have gone up so much that I've stopped shopping there.