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Fayette store offers school and Boy Scout uniforms

By MICHAEL BOYLAN
mboylan@TheCitizenNews.com

The use of school uniforms in both public and private schools has increased exponentially over the last few years. J & R Clothing in Fayetteville has grown with the trend.

Now in a new location on Ga. Highway 85, the store has doubled the sales area for school uniforms, according to President and CEO Richard Dumas.

“We have over 4,000 square feet dedicated to school uniforms,” said Dumas, who cites the personal service that his staff can give their clients, throughout the whole store, as one of the most attractive assets to potential customers. Dumas’s daughter, Donna, who oversees the school uniform section and is vice president of computer operations, agrees, adding that customers get good service, quality and prices and don’t have to dig around for school uniform items.

“School uniforms are increasingly popular because it takes away the arguments between parents and children over what to where,” said Donna Dumas, citing one example. She added that school uniforms come out cheaper in the long run because parents only need to buy one week’s worth of school uniforms and the clothes will typically last throughout the school year.

The store began offering school uniforms four years ago. One of the employees at the store had a child enrolled in a private school and to get the uniforms necessary for the school, the employee had to drive up to Sandy Springs. J & R Clothing saw an opportunity to be the only store on the Southside selling school uniforms and got in the business at the right time. There are a number of public and private schools in the area that mandate that their students wear school uniforms, and J & R Clothing, which has been a trusted name in the community for 38 years, has the materials to service 30 area schools. The uniforms can also be ordered off of their web site, www.jrclothing.com.

According to Donna Dumas, the school uniform season has begun. The staff in the school uniform section of the store has been very busy and they expect things to get busier as the start of the school year and the upcoming sales tax holiday, July 29-31, approaches.

In addition to the school uniform section, J & R Clothing also rents out space to the Flint River Council of the Boy Scouts. It is the only place for members from Fayette, Coweta, Clayton, Upson, Pike, Spalding, Butts and Lamar counties to get uniforms, insignias, merit badges, tour permits, supplies and more. Over 10,000 boys are enrolled in the Flint River Council of the Boy Scouts and J & R Clothing has been their supplier of materials for a number of years.

Donna Harper, a former employee of J & R Clothing, has staffed the Boy Scouts section of the store for four years. She also sews patches on the uniforms for a nominal fee. The hours of the section are different from the store hours. The section is open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sundays from 1-4 p.m. For further information on the Boy Scout section, phone 678-817-5554.

J and R Clothing is open Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturdays from 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sundays from noon-6 p.m. Phone 770-461-3440 for more information.