EXHIBIT 99.2



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                        Company Contact:    Michael O'Hara
                                            General Counsel
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           CASUAL MALE ANNOUNCES ORDERS APPROVING DIP FINANCING AND
                  SECURITIES AND CLAIMS TRADING RESTRICTIONS

     Canton, MA, May 23, 2001 - Casual Male Corp. (NASDAQ: CMAL), announced
today that it and certain of its subsidiaries, each of which filed voluntary
petitions to reorganize their businesses under Chapter 11 of the United States
Bankruptcy Code on May 18, 2001, (collectively, the "Company")have received
approval of certain orders from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Southern District of New York.

     The Company announced that Judge Robert E. Gerber approved on an interim
basis a $135 million post-petition credit facility provided by a lending group
led by Fleet Retail Finance, Inc. and Back Bay Capital Funding LLC.  The credit
facility will provide loans to the Company to fund the Company's ongoing
operations.

     The Court also entered an order that enables the Company to take full
advantage of the automatic injunction (that commenced immediately upon the
Chapter 11 filings) to protect its substantial net operating loss carryforward.
The Court approved certain notice procedures that limit the buying and selling
of the Company's equity and Convertible Subordinated Notes and the trading of
claims that could effect an "ownership change" for tax purposes, thereby
adversely affecting the Company's valuable NOL tax asset.  In order to make sure
that no violations of the automatic stay occur by claims or securities trading,
the Court approved certain procedures to govern and restrict trading.


     These procedures will notify (i) beneficial holders of the Company's
Convertible Subordinated Notes or common stock that, if they beneficially own 5%
or more of such notes or stock, they are stayed from purchasing any additional
notes or stock, and if they own less than 5% of such notes and stock, they are
stayed from purchasing an amount which, when added to their total beneficial
ownership, would equal more than 4.99% of such notes or stock, and (ii) holders
of general unsecured claims (other than the Convertible Subordinated Notes) and
holders of the 13% Senior Subordinated Notes due December 31, 2001 of the
procedures that must be satisfied before the sale or other transfer of such
claims may be deemed effective.  Pursuant to the Order, any sale or other
transfer in violation of such procedures will be null and void.

     Casual Male Corp. and its subsidiaries operate businesses engaged in the
retail sale of apparel through its Casual Male Big & Tall, Repp Big & Tall and
B&T Factory Store businesses, which offer fashion, casual, dress clothing and
footwear to the big and tall man and through its Work n' Gear subsidiary which
sells a wide selection of workwear, health-care apparel and uniforms for
industry and service businesses.  The Company's businesses offer their
merchandise to customers through diverse selling and marketing channels
including retail stores, catalog, direct selling work forces and e-commerce
websites.