Exhibit 99.1

       Delta Apparel Appoints New Member to Board of Directors

    DULUTH, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2007--Delta Apparel, Inc.
(AMEX: DLA) today announced that it has elected Elizabeth J. Gatewood,
Ph.D. to its board of directors.

    Dr. Gatewood is the Director of the University Office of
Entrepreneurship & Liberal Arts at Wake Forest University, a position
she has held since 2004. The Office of Entrepreneurship & Liberal Art
is focused on creating and sustaining an environment that fosters
entrepreneurial thinking and action across the entire campus
community. From 1998 to 2004, she served as the Jack M. Gill Chair of
Entrepreneurship and Director of The Johnson Center for
Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Indiana University. She was named as
one of the top ten best entrepreneurship center directors in the
United States by Entrepreneur Magazine. Prior to her appointment at
Indiana University, Dr. Gatewood was the Executive Director of the
Gulf Coast Small Business Development Center Network, an organization
providing training and consulting services to entrepreneurs and small
business owners in the 36 counties of the greater Houston region.

    She is a co-founder of the "Diana" project, a research study of
women business owners and equity capital access, funded by the
Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, the US Small Business
Administration, and the National Women's Business Council. She and her
colleagues were recently announced as the winners of the FSF-NUTEK
International Award for scientific work of outstanding quality and
importance. Her book with four colleagues, Clearing the Hurdles: Women
Building High-Growth Businesses, was published in 2004 by Prentice
Hall. Her work in entrepreneurial cognition received the National
Foundation of Independent Business Award for best paper at the 2001
Babson-Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Her
research has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing, the
Journal of Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, the
Journal of Small Business Management, and Entrepreneurship and
Regional Development. Dr. Gatewood holds a BS in Psychology from
Purdue University and an MBA in Finance and Ph.D. in Business
Administration with a specialty in strategy from the University of
Georgia.

    "Betsy brings a wealth of experience and strategic analysis to our
company," commented Robert W. Humphreys, President and CEO of Delta
Apparel. "We are pleased to welcome Betsy, and are confident she will
make a significant contribution to our Board of Directors."

    About Delta Apparel, Inc.

    Delta Apparel, Inc., along with its wholly owned subsidiaries, M.
J. Soffe Company and Junkfood Clothing Company, is a marketer,
manufacturer and distributor of high quality branded and private label
activewear apparel. The Company specializes in selling a variety of
casual and athletic activewear tops and bottoms, embellished and
unembellished T-shirts, and fleece products for the ever-changing
apparel market. The Company focuses on its broad distribution of
apparel products to specialty and boutique stores, high-end and
mid-tier retail stores, sporting goods stores, screen printers, and
private label accounts. In addition, certain products are sold in
college bookstores and to the U.S. Military. The Company's operations
are located throughout the United States, Honduras, El Salvador and
Mexico and the Company employs approximately 6,000 people worldwide.
Additional information on the Company is available at
www.deltaapparel.com.

    CONTACT: Delta Apparel, Inc.
             Deborah Merrill, 864-232-5200 x6620
             Chief Financial Officer
             or
             Investor Relations
             Integrated Corporate Relations
             Bill Zima, 203-682-8200