Talbots Receives Unsolicited Letter from Sycamore Partners Proposing to Acquire All Outstanding Common Stock

The Talbots, Inc.

today announced that its Board of Directors has received an unsolicited letter, dated December 6, 2011, from Sycamore Partners outlining a non-binding proposal to acquire all of the Company's outstanding common stock for $3.00 per share. The Board, in consultation with its external legal and financial advisors, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and Perella Weinberg Partners, intends to evaluate the proposal consistent with its fiduciary duties to act in the best interest of the Company's stockholders.