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Clothes Mentor franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Item 19 disclosed

Clothes Mentor operates in the retail category, offering a franchise opportunity with an investment range of $308,000 to $431,500.

Everything below is free, read straight off Clothes Mentor's registered filing, with where the numbers land against retail peers. Weighing Clothes Mentor against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Clothes Mentor's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640851 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Clothes Mentor franchise make?

Clothes Mentor is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure did not machine-read cleanly from this filing, so we don't print one; Item 19 of the source FDD has the tables. See every retail brand that discloses earnings in the Retail franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Clothes Mentor franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come Clothes Mentor's 4% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Clothes Mentor franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Clothes Mentor franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure.

Clothes Mentor lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Clothes Mentor's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) does disclose legal proceedings in Item 3 . Item 3 is the item where a franchisor must put its material legal history on the record. Two things it is not: it covers the franchisor and its predecessors, parents and affiliates, so a disclosed case is not necessarily a suit against Clothes Mentor itself; and a disclosure is a fact, not a finding of wrongdoing — most entries are contract disputes with former franchisees, which every large system accumulates. Item 3 of the source FDD describes each case.

Clothes Mentor closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Clothes Mentor will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what Clothes Mentor's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a retail of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. Clothes Mentor's outlet tables did not machine-read cleanly; Item 20 of the source FDD has them.

Who owns Clothes Mentor?

Clothes Mentor's franchise is offered by Clothes Mentor, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at WI DFI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Retail franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Clothes Mentor is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

Clothes Mentor franchise — frequently asked