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        <footnote id="F2">Granted under the Company's 1995 Stock Option Plan</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Granted under the Company's 2001 Stock Incentive Plan</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Granted under the Company's 2010 Stock Incentive Plan.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">Exercisable in five equal annual installments with the first installment on the date indicated.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">Exercisable in four equal annual installments with the first installment on the date indicated.</footnote>
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        <footnote id="F9">The number of RSU's to be received will be based upon the percentage achievement by Ascena of certain financial performance targets for Ascena's fiscal years 2012, 2013 and 2014.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F10">These shares of performance based shares were awarded under the Company's 2011 Long Term Incentive Plan (the &quot;2011 LTIP&quot;).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F11">These shares vest 1/3 on each of the following dates:  July 30, 2012, July 30, 2013, and July 30, 2014.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F12">Restricted share units issued under the Company's 2010 Stock Incentive Plan.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F13">These units vested in two equal installments on June 19, 2013 and June 19, 2014.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F14">These shares of performance based stock were awarded under the Company's 2015 Long Term Incentive Plan (the &quot;2015 LTIP&quot;).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F15">Each restricted stock unit (&quot;RSU&quot;) represents a contingent right to receive one share of Ascena common stock.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F16">The number of RSU's to be received will be based upon the percentage of achievement by Ascena of certain financial performance targets for Ascena's fiscal year 2013, 2014 and 2015.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F17">Represents the rescission on 10/23/2012 of the shares awarded under the Company's 2015 Long Term Incentive Plan granted on 9/20/2012.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F18">Granted subject to stockholder approval of the amendment of the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended, at the Company's Annual Meeting of Stockholders on 12/11/2012.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F19">Not applicable.</footnote>
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KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Armand Correia, Gene Wexler and Mary Beth Riley, and each of them acting or signing alone, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:



 (1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned?s capacity as an officer and/or director of The Dress Barn, Inc. (the ?Company?), any and all reports required to be filed by the undersigned in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;



 (2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 or other required report and timely file such report with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and



 (3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned, pursuant to this Power of Attorney, shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his discretion.



The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that no such attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is hereby assuming, nor is the Company hereby assuming, any of the undersigned?s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.



This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file reports under Section 16 with respect to the undersigned?s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 29th day of November 29, 2006.





   Signature: /S/ DAVID R. JAFFE



   Printed Name: David R. Jaffe



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