S&K FAMOUS BRANDS INC
10-Q, 1997-09-04
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                                    FORM 10-Q

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

(Mark One)

[ X ]           QUARTERLY REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE
                         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

                  For the quarterly period ended July 26, 1997

                                       OR

[   ]        TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
                         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

        For the transition period from _____________ to _________________

                           Commission File No. 0-11682

                            S & K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.
         .............................................................
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                Virginia                                    54-0845694
     ...............................                   .......................
     (State or other jurisdiction of                      (I.R.S. Employer
     incorporation or organization)                      Identification No.)

     11100 West Broad Street, P. O. Box 31800, Richmond, Virginia 23294-1800
     .......................................................................
                    (Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code:      (804) 346-2500
                                                      .....................

                                 Not Applicable
         ............................................................
              Former name, former address and former fiscal year,
                         if changed since last report.

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required
to be filed  by  Section  13 or 15 (d) of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of 1934
during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter  period that the  Registrant
was  required  to file such  reports),  and (2) has been  subject to such filing
requirements for the past 90 days. Yes X No _____


Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the Registrant's classes of
common stock as of July 26, 1997.

                4,997,508 shares of Common Stock, $0.50 par value



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PART I.  FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1.  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
<TABLE>



                                             S & K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.
                                               Statements of Income
                                (In thousands, except share and per share amounts)
                                                    (unaudited)

<CAPTION>
<S> <C>

                                                       Three Months Ended                  Six Months Ended
                                                 -------------------------------    -------------------------------
                                                   July 26,          July 27,         July 26,          July 27,
                                                     1997              1996             1997              1996
                                                 -------------    --------------    -------------    --------------

Net sales....................................    $      30,788    $       29,397    $      64,248    $       60,845
Cost of sales ...............................           16,407            15,986           33,980            33,035
                                                 -------------    --------------    -------------    --------------
Gross profit ................................           14,381            13,411           30,268            27,810
Other costs and expenses:
   Selling, general and administrative.......           12,434            11,831           25,822            24,119
   Interest..................................              129               143              212               272
   Depreciation and amortization.............              579               580            1,147             1,144
   Other, net ...............................              (37)             (325)             (63)             (381)
                                                 -------------    --------------    -------------    --------------

Income before income taxes ..................            1,276             1,182            3,150             2,656
Provision for income taxes ..................              485               337            1,197               898
                                                 -------------    --------------    -------------    --------------
Net income ..................................    $         791    $          845    $       1,953    $        1,758
                                                 =============    ==============    =============    ==============
Net income per common share .................    $        0.16    $         0.17    $        0.39    $         0.35
                                                 =============    ==============    =============    ==============
Weighted average common shares...............            5,019             5,066            5,043             5,065
                                                 =============    ==============    =============    ==============



   See Notes to Financial Statements.

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                                                 S & K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.
                                                       Balance Sheets
                                     (In thousands, except share and per share amounts)
                                                        (unaudited)
<CAPTION>

                                                                  July 26,            July 27,              January 25,
                                                                    1997                1996                   1997
                                                               --------------       -------------        -----------------
Assets

Current assets:
  Cash....................................................     $          417       $         421        $             537
  Accounts receivable.....................................                503                 524                      398
  Merchandise inventories.................................             42,179              40,142                   41,511
  Other current assets....................................              2,276               2,345                    2,295
                                                               --------------       -------------        -----------------

      Total current assets................................             45,375              43,432                   44,741

Property and equipment, at cost:
  Land and corporate facility.............................              5,123               5,125                    5,123
  Furniture, fixtures and equipment ......................             11,979              11,133                   11,596
  Leasehold improvements..................................             12,758              11,855                   12,396
                                                               --------------       -------------        -----------------
                                                                       29,860              28,113                   29,115
  Less:  Accumulated depreciation and amortization........             14,973              13,779                   14,360
                                                               --------------       -------------        -----------------
                                                                       14,887              14,334                   14,755

Other assets .............................................              3,164               2,461                    2,933
                                                               --------------       -------------        -----------------
                                                               $       63,426       $      60,227        $          62,429
                                                               ==============       =============        =================

Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity

Current liabilities:
  Current maturities of long-term debt ...................     $          180       $         180        $             180
  Accounts payable .......................................              3,776               4,508                    5,699
  Accrued expenses:
      Compensation-related items..........................              1,062                 952                    2,211
      Current and deferred income taxes...................                114                 194                    1,339
      Other current liabilities...........................              1,428               1,284                    1,508
                                                               --------------       -------------        -----------------

         Total current liabilities........................              6,560               7,118                   10,937

Industrial Development Revenue Bond.......................              2,070               2,250                    2,160
Long-term debt............................................              7,189               7,429                    3,020
Deferred income taxes.....................................              1,225               1,228                    1,203
Commitments
Shareholders' equity:
      Preferred stock, $1 par value; authorized shares,
         500,000;  issued and outstanding shares, none
  Common stock, $.50 par value, authorized shares,
      10,000,000; issued and outstanding shares,
      4,997,508, 5,066,371 and 5,066,371, respectively                  2,499               2,533                    2,533
  Capital in excess of par value..........................              7,155               7,837                    7,837
  Notes receivable--Stock Purchase Loan Plan..............             (1,341)             (1,432)                  (1,377)
  Retained earnings.......................................             38,069              33,264                   36,116
                                                               --------------       -------------        -----------------
                                                                       46,382              42,202                   45,109
                                                               --------------       -------------        -----------------
                                                               $       63,426       $      60,227        $          62,429
                                                               ==============       =============        =================
See Notes to Financial Statements.

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                                             S & K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.
                                             Statements of Cash Flows
                                            Increase (Decrease) in Cash
                                                  (In thousands)
                                                    (unaudited)


                                                                                            Six Months Ended
                                                                               -------------------------------------------
                                                                                 July 26, 1997            July 27, 1996
                                                                               -----------------        ------------------
Cash flows from operating activities:
   Net income......................................................            $           1,953        $            1,758
   Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash
     (used for) provided by operating activities:
      Depreciation and amortization................................                        1,330                     1,347
      Loss on property dispositions, net...........................                           43                       226
      Other........................................................                          101                        66
      Changes in assets and liabilities:
         Accounts receivable.......................................                         (105)                       86
         Inventories...............................................                         (668)                     (441)
         Other current assets......................................                           19                       (45)
         Other assets..............................................                         (231)                      (85)
         Accounts payable and accrued expenses.....................                       (3,066)                   (2,078)
         Income taxes and deferred income taxes....................                       (1,203)                     (789)
                                                                               -----------------        ------------------
   Net cash (used for) provided by operating activities............                       (1,827)                       45
                                                                               -----------------        ------------------
Cash flows from investing activities:
   Capital expenditures............................................                       (1,505)                     (815)
                                                                               -----------------        ------------------
Cash flows from financing activities:
   Net borrowings under revolving bank lines of credit.............                        4,068                       761
   Reduction of long-term debt.....................................                          (90)                      (90)
   Repurchase of common stock......................................                         (766)                        0
                                                                               -----------------        ------------------
   Net cash provided by financing activities.......................                        3,212                       671
                                                                               -----------------        ------------------
Net decrease in cash...............................................                        (120)                      (99)
Cash at beginning of period........................................                          537                       520
                                                                               -----------------        ------------------
Cash at end of period..............................................            $             417        $              421
                                                                               =================        ==================

Supplemental cash flow information: Cash paid during the period for:
      Interest.....................................................            $             193        $              274
      Income taxes.................................................                        2,413                     1,690

See Notes to Financial Statements.
</TABLE>


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                            S & K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.

                          Notes to Financial Statements
                                   (unaudited)

A.    Accounting Policies

      The accompanying unaudited interim financial statements have been prepared
by the Company in accordance with the regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission in regard to quarterly reporting.  In the opinion of the Company, the
statements  include  all  adjustments,   consisting  only  of  normal  recurring
adjustments,  which are  necessary  for a fair  representation  of the financial
position and results of operations for interim periods.

B.    Interim Results of Operations

      The  Company's  business  is  highly  seasonal,  with peak  sales  periods
occurring during its fourth fiscal quarter which includes the Christmas  season.
The net earnings of any interim quarter are seasonally  disproportionate  to net
sales since  administrative  and certain  operating  expenses remain  relatively
constant during the year. Consequently, interim results should not be considered
necessarily indicative of the results for the entire fiscal year.

C.    Expansion

      Since the end of the first quarter,  the Company has opened eight more new
stores  totaling 38,955 square feet. The new stores in Lake Park,  Georgia,  and
Wilmington, North Carolina, were relocations.

         S&K Store Locations                Date Opened           Square Footage
- --------------------------------------     -----------------      --------------
         Georgia:  Lake Park(1)            August 22, 1997*           5,160
        Michigan:  Okemos (E. Lansing)     May 21, 1997               5,685
  North Carolina:  Charlotte               August 22, 1997*           5,000
           Wilmington(1)                   July 26, 1997              4,844
    Pennsylvania:  Reading                 July 26, 1997              4,486
       Tennessee:  Memphis                 June 6, 1997               5,200
        Virginia:  Fredericksburg          August 26, 1997*           5,000
   West Virginia:  Martinsburg             August 16, 1997*           3,580

*Store opened in third quarter.

(1) This new store was  relocated  from a  previous  location  which has  closed
(3,000  square feet - Lake Park,  Georgia,  and 4,069 square feet -  Wilmington,
North Carolina.)

During the second  quarter,  the Company  closed the Beaufont  Mall store (3,600
square  feet) in  Richmond,  Virginia,  which was at the end of the lease  term,
since it was not meeting the Company's sales and profitability expectations.

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Item 2.     MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND FINANCIAL REVIEW

Three Months and Six Months Ended July 26, 1997 Compared to Three Months and Six
Months Ended July 27, 1996

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

      The following  table sets forth certain items in the  Statements of Income
as a percentage  of net sales for the three months and six months ended July 26,
1997 and July 27, 1996.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
<S> <C>
                                                                                Percentage of Net Sales
                                                          -------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                Three Months Ended                   Six Months Ended
                                                          -------------------------------     -------------------------------
                                                             7/26/97           7/27/96          7/26/97           7/27/96
                                                          --------------     ------------     ------------     --------------
Net sales............................................         100.0 %           100.0 %          100.0 %            100.0 %
Cost of sales .......................................          53.3              54.4             52.9               54.3
                                                          --------------     ------------     ------------     --------------
Gross profit ........................................          46.7              45.6             47.1               45.7
Other costs and expenses:
   Selling, general and administrative...............          40.4              40.2             40.2               39.6
   Interest .........................................            .4                .5               .3                 .4
   Depreciation and amortization ....................           1.9               2.0              1.8                1.9
   Other, net .......................................           (.1)             (1.1)             (.1)               (.6)
                                                          --------------     ------------     ------------     --------------
Income before incomes taxes .........................           4.1               4.0              4.9                4.4
Provision for income taxes ..........................           1.5               1.1              1.9                1.5
                                                          --------------     ------------     ------------     --------------
Net income ..........................................           2.6 %             2.9 %            3.0 %              2.9 %
                                                          ==============     ============     ============     ==============
</TABLE>

      Net sales in the second quarter increased by 5%, or $1.4 million, over the
same period last year,  and  reflects  the net  addition of ten new stores since
July 27, 1996.  Excluding the sales volume in three former Menswear Mega Centers
(MMC) which were closed in August, 1996, second quarter net sales increased 11%.
Comparable store sales were up 5%. For the six-month period, net sales increased
by 6% or $3.4  million  over the same  period last year with  comparable  stores
sales up 5%. These sales  increases were mostly  attributable  to growth in suit
sales.  During the quarter  ended July 26,  1997,  the  Company  opened four new
stores,  one of which was a relocation and conversion to the superstore  format,
and closed one store.  There were 198 stores in  operation  as of July 26, 1997,
compared to 188 stores at July 27, 1996.

      Cost of sales in the second  quarter of fiscal 1998 was 53.3% of net sales
compared to 54.4% of net sales for the same period last year.  For the six-month
period,  cost of sales was 52.9% of net sales compared to 54.3% last year. These
decreases were primarily due to the lack of lower margin MMC sales this year. To
a lesser  degree,  the cost of  sales  decreases  were  the  result  of  reduced
markdowns in the S&K stores.

      Selling,  general and  administrative  expenses  in the second  quarter of
fiscal  1998  were  40.4% of net  sales  compared  to 40.2% of net sales for the
second quarter of fiscal 1997. For the six-month  period,  selling,  general and
administrative  expenses were 40.2% of net sales  compared to 39.6% of net sales
last year.  These  increases were due to not having the lower overhead MMC sales
this year,  offset for the most part by reduced  advertising and occupancy costs
as a percentage of net sales in the S&K stores.


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      Interest expense in the second quarter of fiscal 1998 was .4% of net sales
compared  to .5% of net sales for the  second  quarter of fiscal  1997.  For the
six-month  period,  interest expense was .3% of net sales compared to .4% of net
sales last year.  These decreases are primarily  attributable to reduced average
borrowings this year.

      Other, net in the second quarter of fiscal 1998 was income of (.1)% of net
sales  compared to (1.1)% of net sales for the same  period  last year.  For the
six-month period,  other, net was income of (.1)% of net sales compared to (.6)%
last  year.  Last year,  other,  net  included a $295,000  gain ($.06 per share)
related to nonrecurring, nontaxable insurance proceeds.

      Provision for income taxes in the second  quarter of fiscal 1998 was 38.0%
of income before income taxes  compared to 28.6% for the same quarter last year.
On a year-to-date  basis,  provision for income taxes was 38.0% of income before
income taxes compared to 33.8% last year. The lower effective tax rate in fiscal
1997  is  attributable  to  the  nontaxable,   nonrecurring  insurance  proceeds
disclosed in other, net above.


LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

      The  Company  has  funded  its  operating  activities,  including  capital
expenditures for the opening of new stores, from internally  generated funds and
from bank  borrowings.  Through the first six months of fiscal 1998, the Company
opened eight new S&K stores, closed three stores (one of which was a relocation)
and  remodeled  ten others.  By  Thanksgiving  1997,  the Company  plans to open
additional new stores and remodel several others.  The Company believes that its
sources of liquidity  and capital  resources  will  continue to be sufficient to
fund its operations and capital expenditures.

      Operating  activities  used $1.8 million and provided  $45,000 of net cash
during the first six months of fiscal 1998 and 1997, respectively. Excluding the
effects of changes in working capital, net cash provided by operating activities
in the first six months of both years was approximately $3.4 million.

      Net cash used in investing  activities  in fiscal 1998 and fiscal 1997 was
primarily  for  the  purpose  of  store  expansion  and   remodelings.   Capital
expenditures for the first six months of fiscal 1998 and 1997  approximated $1.5
million and $.8 million,  respectively.  In the first six months of fiscal 1998,
the Company  opened  eight new stores and  remodeled  ten  others.  For the same
period last year, the Company opened four new stores and converted two others to
its superstore format.

      Financing  activities  provided net cash of approximately  $3.2 million in
the first six months of fiscal 1998 compared with $.7 million in the same fiscal
1997  period.  During the first two  quarters of fiscal  1998,  the Company used
approximately  $766,000 to repurchase 74,000 shares of its common stock.  During
the quarter ended July 26, 1997,  the Company  renewed its credit  agreements to
May 31, 2000,  which,  at the Company's  option,  are  convertible to term loans
expiring May 31, 2004.  Financing activities primarily relate to fluctuations in
the borrowing levels under the Company's  revolving credit agreements which have
an aggregate  borrowing  capacity of $30.0  million.  As of July 26,  1997,  the
Company had net unused  commitments  of  approximately  $23.9  million under the
agreements.


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PART II.  OTHER INFORMATION

Item 4.     Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

(a)         The annual meeting of the Company's shareholders was held on May 29,
            1997.

(b) & (c)   At the annual meeting,  the  shareholders  elected eight  directors,
            approved an  amendment to the  Company's  1991 Stock Option Plan and
            ratified the selection of  independent  accountants.  The results of
            the voting were as follows:

              Election of Directors
                   Director                   For          Withheld      Abstain
              ---------------------        ---------       --------      -------
              Stuart C. Siegel             4,627,363        276,450          0
              Robert L. Burrus, Jr.        4,623,269        280,544          0
              Donald W. Colbert            4,627,363        276,450          0
              Selwyn  S. Herson            4,264,312        639,501          0
              Andrew M. Lewis              4,624,258        279,555          0
              Steven A. Markel             4,627,463        276,350          0
              Troy A. Peery                4,264,512        639,301          0
              Marshall B. Wishnack         4,626,063        277,750          0

           Approval of  amendment  to 1991 Stock  Option  Plan to  increase  the
           number of  common  shares  reserved  for  issuance  under the Plan by
           200,000 shares
                              For           Against       Abstain
                          ------------      -------       -------
                           4,081,541        802,120        4,913


           Ratification of Price Waterhouse LLP as Independent Accountants
                              For            Against      Abstain
                          ------------       -------      -------
                           4,896,642          4,285         2,886




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Item 6.           Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K

           (a)    Exhibits

                  (4)    a.  Amendment to Credit Agreement dated April 30, 1997,
                             between the registrant and Crestar Bank.

                  (4)    b.  Amended and Restated  Credit  Agreement dated as of
                             May 31, 1997, between registrant and Signet Bank.

                  (27)       Financial Data Schedule

            (b) There were no reports  filed on Form 8-K during the three months
ended July 26, 1997.

                                   SIGNATURES

      Pursuant to the  requirements of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

                                          S & K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.
                                               (Registrant)


Date:  September 4, 1997                  /s/ Robert E. Knowles
                                          ---------------------
                                          Robert E. Knowles
                                          Executive Vice President,
                                          Chief Financial Officer,
                                          Secretary and Treasurer
                                          (Principal Financial Officer)

Date:  September 4, 1997                  /s/ Janet L. Jorgensen
                                          ----------------------
                                          Janet L. Jorgensen
                                          Vice President and Controller
                                          (Principal Accounting Officer)


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                          AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT


This Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated April 30, 1997, is made by and between
S&K Famous  Brands,  Inc., a Virginia  corporation  (the  "Company") and Crestar
Bank, a Virginia corporation (the "Bank").

The Bank and the Company are parties to a Credit  Agreement  (the  "Agreement"),
dated as of March 10,  1994.  The  Company  has  asked  the Bank to  extend  the
maturity of the Revolving Loans,  increase the commitment  amount and make other
changes to the Agreement, as hereinafter provided.

Now, therefore,  for good and valuable  consideration,  the Company and the Bank
agree as follows:

Section 1. Definitions and Confirmation.  Unless otherwise  specifically defined
herein, each term used will have the meaning defined in the Agreement. Except as
amended  herein,  all of the terms of the Agreement shall remain and continue in
full force and effect and are hereby confirmed in all respects.

Section 2.  Amendments to the Credit  Agreement.  The following  Sections of the
Agreement are deleted in their entirety and are substituted  therefor to read in
full as follows:

         2.1  Commitment  to Lend.  Subject to the terms and  conditions of this
Agreement,  the Bank agrees to make Revolving Loans  ("Revolving  Loans") to the
Company  from time to time until  maturity of the  Revolving  Note as defined in
Section  2.4, up to the  maximum  outstanding  principal  amount at any one time
outstanding of Sixteen Million Dollars ($16,000,000) from the date hereof to and
including May 31, 2000,  such amount being  hereafter  called the  "Commitment."
Revolving  Loans may be  designated  as  Floating  Rate Loans  (Section  2.5) or
Negotiated Rate Loans (Section 2.2). The Company may borrow, repay, and reborrow
the maximum annual permitted principal amount of the Commitment.

         2.3  Maturity  of Loans.  Each  Revolving  Loan shall  mature,  and the
principal  amount  thereof  shall  be due and  payable  on the  last  day of the
Interest  Period  applicable  thereto,  but in no event shall a  Revolving  Loan
mature later than May 31, 2000,  when the Commitment  expires in accordance with
the terms of the Revolving Note as defined in Section 2.4.


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         2.4 Revolving  Note;  Interest  Payments.  The Revolving Loans shall be
evidenced  by a single  note in the  form of  Exhibit  A  attached  hereto  (the
"Revolving Note") maturing on May 31, 2000. The Company agrees to deliver to the
Bank the  Revolving  Note in the  principal  amount of Sixteen  Million  Dollars
($16,000,000) , representing  the obligation of the Company to pay the aggregate
unpaid  principal  amount of all  Revolving  Loans from time to time made by the
Bank.  Accrued  interest on the Revolving Note shall be paid monthly on the last
day of the  month,  regardless  of  the  Interest  Period  or  Interest  Periods
selected, or at maturity, whichever is sooner.

         2.5(a). Interest Rate Option A. For a Federal Funds Rate Loan at a rate
per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.75%.

         2.7.  Commitment  Fee.  The  Company  shall  pay to the Bank an  annual
commitment fee in an amount equal to the product of the annual Commitment amount
multiplied  by  .125%  (.00125).  The  commitment  fee  shall  be paid in  equal
quarterly  installments on the last day of each quarter commencing June 30, 1997
through maturity. For the purpose of prorating the amount of commitment fee due,
a quarter shall be deemed to consist of 91 days.

         3.1 Amount.  The Bank  agrees to make a Term Loan (the "Term  Loan") to
the Company on May 31, 2000, in a principal amount equal to the principal amount
of the Revolving Note outstanding on such date, or any part thereof as specified
by the Company.

         3.3 Term Note. On May 31, 2000, the Company shall deliver to the Bank a
note in the form of Exhibit B attached  hereto (the "Term Note") dated such date
and in a principal  amount equal to the principal  amount of the Term Loan to be
made by the Bank.  The  principal of the Term Note shall be paid in  forty-seven
consecutive  equal  monthly  installments  each  payable on the last day of each
month  commencing  June 30, 2000 with a final  installment  due on May 31, 2004,
when the unpaid principal amount and the accrued and unpaid interest on the Term
Note shall be payable in full.

         3.4  Interest.   The  Term  Note  shall  bear  interest  calculated  in
accordance  with  Section  9.5 from the date  thereof  on the  unpaid  principal
balance from time to time outstanding at an interest rate per annum equal to the
Company's  option of: (a) a rate  floating  at the Prime Rate with any change in
such interest rate being effective as of the date the Prime Rate is changed, (b)
a rate floating at the Interest Rate Option A as defined in Section  2.5(a),  or
(c) at the  following  fixed  interest  rates:  (i) if the Ratio  calculated  in
Section 7.1.5 is lesser than or equal to .75 then at the interest rate per annum
equal  to the  Index,  as  hereafter  defined,  plus  1.00%,  (ii) if the  Ratio
calculated  in Section  7.1.5 is greater than .75 but less than or equal to 1.00
then at a interest rate per annum equal to the Index plus 1.25% and (iii) if the
Ratio calculated in Section 7.1.5 is greater than 1.00 but less than or equal to
1.25 then at an interest rate per annum equal to the Index plus 1.50%. The Ratio
calculated  in  accordance  with Section  7.1.5 as used in this Section shall be
determined  as of the most recent  fiscal  year end of the Company  prior to the
execution  date of the Term Note.  The "Index" is defined as the  interest  rate
prevailing  as of the  execution  date of the Term  Note for a U. S.  Government
security with a maturity of 30 months.  Accrued  interest on the Term Note shall
be paid  monthly on the last day of each month  commencing  June 30, 2000 and at
its maturity.

         6.5  Financial  Statements.  The  financial  statements  of the Company
contained  in the  Company's  Form 10-K Annual  Report for the fiscal year ended
January  30,  1997 and in the  Company's  10-Q  Quarterly  Report for the fiscal
quarter  ended  October  30,  1996  filed  with  the   Securities  and  Exchange
Commission,  copies of which have been  heretofore  delivered to the Bank,  were
prepared in accordance with generally accepted  accounting  principles in effect
on the dates such  statements  were  prepared and fairly  present the  financial
condition of the Company at the dates of such  statements and the results of its
operations  for the  periods  then  ended.  No  material  adverse  change in the
condition  of the Company as shown on such  financial  statements  has  occurred
since the dates thereof.

         7.1.3  Minimum  Consolidated   Tangible  Net  Worth.  Maintain  minimum
Consolidated  Tangible Net Worth at all times in an amount that is not less than
90% of the  Consolidated  Tangible  Net Worth as of the end of the  fiscal  year
ended  January 25, 1997.  The minimum  Consolidated  Tangible Net Worth is to be
increased  on each fiscal year end  thereafter  by an amount equal to 80% of the
Company's positive net income for the fiscal years ended after January 25, 1997.
The minimum  Consolidated  Tangible  Net Worth will not be adjusted  for any net
loss reported by the Company.

         7.2.5 Inspection. Permit the Bank by its representatives and agents and
at its expense, to inspect any of the properties,  corporate books and financial
records of the  Company and each  Subsidiary,  to examine and make copies of the
books  of  accounts  and  other  financial  records  of  the  Company  and  each
Subsidiary, and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Company and
each Subsidiary  with, and to be advised as to the same by, its officers at such
reasonable times and intervals as the Bank may designate.

         9.16 Additional  Banks/Loan  Agreements.  The Bank understands that the
Company also  maintains a  $14,000,000  revolving  credit  facility  with Signet
Bank/Virginia. The Bank further understands that the terms and conditions of the
$14,000,000 loan agreement do not conflict with those in this Agreement and that
all loan proceeds from any Signet loans are used for working capital and general
corporate purposes.  During the term of this Agreement,  the Company agrees that
it shall  not  enter  into any  other  loan  agreements  which  would  cause its
Indebtedness  to exceed  $30,000,000  (excluding  loans under the Bond  Purchase
Agreement).

Section  3.  Amendments  to the  Credit  Agreement,  Exhibits.  Exhibits A and B
attached to the Agreement are both hereby deleted in their entirety and Exhibits
A and B  attached  hereto  are  substituted  therefor.  All  references  in  the
Agreement to Exhibits A and B shall be deemed to refer to the exhibits  attached
hereto.

Section 4. Completeness and Modification.  This amendment constitutes the entire
agreement between the Company and the Bank and supersedes all prior discussions,
understandings or agreements.

Section 5. Effectiveness.  This amendment shall become effective as of April 30,
1997, on the date (the  "Effective  Date") when the following  conditions  shall
have been satisfied:

         (a) this  amendment  shall have been  executed  by each of the  parties
hereto, and the Company shall have delivered executed counterparts to the Bank;

         (b) the  representations and warranties of the Company contained in the
Agreement shall be true as of the Effective Date;

         (c) the  Company  shall have  executed  and  delivered  to the Bank the
Revolving Note in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto; and

         (d) the  Company  has  satisfied  the  conditions  of Section IV of the
Agreement.

         On and after the  Effective  Date the  rights  and  obligations  of the
Company  and the Bank shall be  governed  by the  Agreement  as amended  herein;
provided that any rights with respect to the period prior to the Effective  Date
shall continue to governed by the terms of the Credit Agreement.

         WITNESS the following signatures, as of the date first written above.


                          S&K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.
                          By ____________________________________
                          Title ___________________________________
                          Address:       11100 West Broad Street
                                         P.O. Box 31800
                                         Richmond, Virginia  23294-1800
                                         Attn.:  Executive Vice President and
                                         Chief Financial Officer


                          Crestar Bank
                          By ____________________________________
                          Title ___________________________________
                          Address:       919 East Main Street
                                         P.O. Box 26665
                                         Richmond, Virginia  23261
                                         Attn.:  David P. Butler


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                                    EXHIBIT A
                                 REVOLVING NOTE


$16,000,000.00                                                Richmond, Virginia
                                                                  April 30, 1997

         FOR VALUE  RECEIVED,  on May 31,  2000,  S&K  FAMOUS  BRANDS,  INC.,  a
Virginia  corporation (the  "Borrower"),  hereby promises to pay to the order of
Crestar  Bank (the  "Payee" or the  "Bank")  at its main  office,  in  Richmond,
Virginia, in lawful money of the United States, the principal of Sixteen Million
and no/100 Dollars ($16,000,000) or the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all
Revolving  Loans  made by the  Payee  to the  Borrower  pursuant  to the  Credit
Agreement  hereinafter  referred to,  whichever is less (the  "Principal").  The
Borrower  further  promises to pay interest on the last day of each month during
the term  hereof,  commencing  May 31,  1997,  and on the last day of each month
thereafter and on May 31, 2000, on the amount of the Principal from time to time
outstanding  during the period beginning on the date hereof and continuing until
this  Note  is  paid in full  at a rate  or  rates  provided  for in the  Credit
Agreement.  Interest  payable  hereunder  shall be  calculated on the basis of a
365-day year and paid for the actual number of days for which due.
         This Note is  issued  pursuant  to the  provision  of a certain  Credit
Agreement  dated as of March 10, 1994 between the Borrower and the Bank (herein,
as the  same  may  from  time to time be  amended,  referred  to as the  "Credit
Agreement").
         This Note is subject to  prepayment,  in whole or in part, as specified
in the Credit Agreement.  In case a Default, as defined in the Credit Agreement,
shall occur and be continuing, this Note may become or may be declared to be due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Credit  Agreement,
and the  Borrower  hereby  agrees to pay all costs and  expenses  in  connection
therewith,  including  reasonable  attorney's  fees,  as  provided in the Credit
Agreement.
         The Borrower and all  guarantors,  endorsers and pledgors hereof hereby
waive presentment,  demand,  notice of dishonor,  protest, and all other demands
and notices in connection with the delivery,  acceptance and performance of this
Note.
         This Note shall be governed by and  interpreted in accordance  with the
laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
         In Witness  Whereof,  the Borrower has caused its corporate  name to be
signed by its duly authorized officer as of the day and first above written.


                                S&K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.
                                By ____________________________________
                                Title ___________________________________


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                                    EXHIBIT B
                                    TERM NOTE
$_______________                                              Richmond, Virginia
                                                                    May 31, 2000

         FOR VALUE  RECEIVED,  S&K FAMOUS BRANDS,  INC., a Virginia  corporation
(the  "Borrower"),  hereby  promises  to pay to the order of  Crestar  Bank (the
"Payee" or the "Bank") at its main  office,  in  Richmond,  Virginia,  in lawful
money  of  the  United  States,   the  principal  of   _______________   Dollars
($_______________)  (the "Principal"),  in forty-seven consecutive equal monthly
installments of principal of  _____________________  Dollars  ($_______________)
each,  commencing on June 30, 2000, and continuing on the last day of each month
thereafter  and  one  final  payment  of  principal  of  _____________   Dollars
($_______________)  on May 31, 2004 when the entire unpaid Principal and accrued
interest  thereon shall be paid in full. The Borrower hereby further promises to
pay interest  from the date hereof on the amount of Principal  from time to time
outstanding at a rate or rates as provided for in the Credit Agreement. Interest
shall  be  payable  on the  last  day of each  month  during  the  term  hereof,
commencing on June 30, 2000, and on the last day of the month  thereafter and on
May 31, 2004.  Interest  shall continue to accrue on this Note after maturity at
the rate set forth  above and shall  then be  payable on demand of the holder of
this Note.  Interest  payable  hereunder  shall be  calculated on the basis of a
365-day year and paid for the actual number of days for which due.
         This Note is issued  pursuant  to and  subject to the  provisions  of a
certain Credit Agreement dated as of March 10, 1994 between the Borrower and the
Payee (herein, as the same may from time to time be amended,  referred to as the
"Credit Agreement");  but neither this reference to the Credit Agreement nor any
provision  thereof  shall  affect  or  impair  the  absolute  and  unconditional
obligation  of the Borrower to pay the Principal of and interest on this Note as
herein provided.
         This Note is subject to  prepayment,  in whole or in part, as specified
in the Credit Agreement.  In case a Default, as defined in the Credit Agreement,
shall occur and be continuing, this Note may become or may be declared to be due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Credit  Agreement,
and the  Borrower  hereby  agrees to pay all costs and  expenses  in  connection
therewith,  including  reasonable  attorney's  fees,  as  provided in the Credit
Agreement.
         The Borrower and all  guarantors,  endorsers and pledgors hereof hereby
waive presentment, demand, notice of dishonor, protest and all other demands and
notices in connection with the delivery, acceptance, performance and enforcement
of this Note.  This Note shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with
the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.  IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  the Borrower has
caused its corporate name to be signed by its duly authorized  officer as of the
day and year first above written.


                                S&K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.
                                By ____________________________________
                                Title ___________________________________

                              AMENDED AND RESTATED

                                CREDIT AGREEMENT

                            dated as of May 31, 1997

                                     between

                            S & K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.

                                       and

                                   SIGNET BANK

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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS*

ARTICLE I
   SECTION 1.1           Definitions.....................................................................1

ARTICLE II
   SECTION 2.1           Commitment to Lend Fed Funds Loans..............................................5
   SECTION 2.2           Letters of Credit...............................................................6
   SECTION 2.3           Money Market Loans..............................................................6
   SECTION 2.4           Method of Fed Funds Borrowing...................................................8
   SECTION 2.5           Maturity of Loans...............................................................8
   SECTION 2.6           Revolving Note..................................................................8
   SECTION 2.7           Interest Rates; Payments........................................................8
   SECTION 2.8           Overdue Interest Rates..........................................................9
   SECTION 2.9           Prepayment......................................................................9
   SECTION 2.10          Funding Losses..................................................................9
   SECTION 2.11          Commitment Fees.................................................................9
   SECTION 2.12          Optional Termination or Reduction of Commitment................................10
   SECTION 2.13          Extension of Availability Period...............................................10

ARTICLE III
   SECTION 3.1           Amount.........................................................................10
   SECTION 3.2           Proceeds.......................................................................10
   SECTION 3.3           Term Note......................................................................11
   SECTION 3.4           Interest.......................................................................11
   SECTION 3.5           Voluntary Prepayments..........................................................11

ARTICLE IV
   SECTION 4.1           All Revolving Loans............................................................11
   SECTION 4.2           First Borrowing................................................................12
   SECTION 4.3           Term Loan......................................................................12

ARTICLE V
   SECTION 5.1           Authorized Representatives.....................................................13
   SECTION 5.2           Funds..........................................................................13
   SECTION 5.3           Method of Payment..............................................................13

ARTICLE VI
   SECTION 6.1           Corporate Existence And Standing...............................................13
   SECTION 6.2           Authorization and Validity.....................................................13
   SECTION 6.3           Compliance with Laws and Contracts.............................................13
   SECTION 6.4           No Governmental or Other Approvals.............................................14
   SECTION 6.5           Financial Statements...........................................................14
   SECTION 6.6           Taxes..........................................................................14
   SECTION 6.7           Litigation.....................................................................14
   SECTION 6.8           ERISA..........................................................................14
   SECTION 6.9           Defaults.......................................................................15
   SECTION 6.10          Accuracy of Information........................................................15
   SECTION 6.11          Regulation U...................................................................15

ARTICLE VII
   SECTION 7.1           Financial Reporting............................................................15
   SECTION 7.2           Use of Proceeds................................................................17
   SECTION 7.3           Consolidated Tangible Net Worth................................................17
   SECTION 7.4           Current Ratio..................................................................17
   SECTION 7.5           Ratio of Consolidated Unsubordinated Liabilities to Consolidated
                            Effective Tangible Net Worth ...............................................17
   SECTION 7.6           Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio....................................................17
   SECTION 7.7           Notice of Default..............................................................17
   SECTION 7.8           Conduct of Business and Maintenance of Existence...............................17
   SECTION 7.9           Taxes..........................................................................18
   SECTION 7.10          Insurance......................................................................18
   SECTION 7.11          Inspection.....................................................................18
   SECTION 7.12          Mergers, Acquisitions and Sale of Assets.......................................18
   SECTION 7.13          Sale of Accounts...............................................................19
   SECTION 7.14          Investments....................................................................19
   SECTION 7.15          Guaranties.....................................................................20
   SECTION 7.16          Liens..........................................................................20
   SECTION 7.17          Prepayment of Subordinated Debt................................................21
   SECTION 7.18          Purchase of Stock, Money Market Instruments....................................21

ARTICLE VIII
   SECTION 8.1           Events of Default..............................................................21
   SECTION 8.2           Acceleration and Recourse......................................................23

ARTICLE IX
   SECTION 9.1           Illegality.....................................................................23
   SECTION 9.2           Increased Cost.................................................................24

ARTICLE X
   SECTION 10.1          Notices........................................................................25
   SECTION 10.2          Term of Agreement..............................................................25
   SECTION 10.3          No Waivers.....................................................................25
   SECTION 10.4          Governing Law..................................................................25
   SECTION 10.5          Computation of Interest........................................................25
   SECTION 10.6          Expenses, Taxes. etc...........................................................25
   SECTION 10.7          Payments in Immediately Available Funds........................................26
   SECTION 10.8          Accounting Terms...............................................................26
   SECTION 10.9          Representations of the Bank....................................................26
   SECTION 10.10         Repayments in Bankruptcy.......................................................26
   SECTION 10.11         Changes, Waivers, etc..........................................................26
   SECTION 10.12         Singular and Plural............................................................27
   SECTION 10.13         Use of Defined Terms...........................................................27
   SECTION 10.14         Binding Effect of Agreement....................................................27
   SECTION 10.15         Headings.......................................................................27
   SECTION 10.16         Counterparts...................................................................27
   SECTION 10.17         Successors and Assigns.........................................................27
   SECTION 10.18         Consent to Jurisdiction........................................................28
   SECTION 10.19         Enforcement of Judgments.......................................................29
   SECTION 10.20         Service of Process.............................................................29
   SECTION 10.21         Completeness and Modification .................................................29
   SECTION 10.22         Waiver of Claims...............................................................29

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Exhibit A         Revolving Note
Exhibit B         Form of Term Note
Exhibit C         Opinion of Counsel


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* This Table of Contents is not a part of the Agreement.


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         THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT  AGREEMENT is dated as of May 31, 1997
and is by and between  S&K FAMOUS  BRANDS,  INC.,  a Virginia  corporation  (the
"Company"),   and  SIGNET  BANK,  formerly  Signet  Bank/Virginia,   a  Virginia
corporation (the "Bank"), and provides as follows:

         The Company has requested  that the Bank make  available to the Company
the revolving loans, in the aggregate principal amount not exceeding $14,000,000
at any one time outstanding, and to then make the term loan as described in this
Agreement.  The Bank is willing  to make such loans to the  Company on the terms
and  conditions  set forth  herein.  Accordingly,  the parties  hereto  agree as
follows:

                                    ARTICLE I
                                   DEFINITIONS

         SECTION 1.1      Definitions.

         As used in this Agreement,

         "Agreement"  means  this  credit  agreement,  as  it  may  be  amended,
supplemented or modified from time to time.

         "Assignee"  shall  have the  meaning  ascribed  to such term in Section
10.17 of this Agreement.

         "Availability  Period"  means the  period  commencing  on the date this
Agreement becomes effective and ending on the Termination Date.

         "Business Day" means any day except a Saturday,  Sunday or other day on
which commercial banks in Richmond, Virginia are authorized by law to close.

         "Capitalized  Lease Obligations" means the amount of the obligations of
the Company and its Subsidiaries  under Financing Leases which would be shown as
a  liability  on a balance  sheet of the  Company or a  Subsidiary,  prepared in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

         "Commitment" means $14,000,000, as such amount may be reduced from time
to time pursuant to Section 2.12.

         "Commitment Fee" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.11.

         "Company" means S&K Famous Brands, Inc., a Virginia corporation.

         "Consolidated"  refers to any  determination to be made for the Company
and  its   Subsidiaries  in  accordance  with  generally   accepted   accounting
principals, including the principles, including the principles of consolidation.

         "Default" means an event described in Article VIII.

         "Effective  Tangible  Net  Worth"  means  Tangible  Net Worth  plus the
principal amount of Subordinated Debt outstanding from time to time.

         "ERISA" means the Employee  Retirement  Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended from time to time.

         "Fed Funds  Loans"  means a Loan made in  accordance  with  Section 2.1
hereof.

         "Fed Funds Rate" means,  for each day, that rate per annum,  determined
solely by the Bank,  as the offered rate  published by Telerate,  page 12 (or by
Reuters Limited, PREBON page, if Telerate is not available) (rounded upwards, if
necessary,  to the next higher  1/100 of 1%) for federal  funds for a term of 30
days.

         "Financing   Lease"  means  any  lease  of  property   which  would  be
capitalized  on a balance  sheet of the  Company or a  Subsidiary,  prepared  in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

         "Funded Debt" means any  Indebtedness  of the Company or any Subsidiary
which has a stated  maturity more than one year after the date of  determination
or has a maturity  which may be extended by the Company or any  Subsidiary  to a
date more than one year after the date of determination.

         "Guaranty"  means any agreement by which the Company or any  Subsidiary
assumes, guarantees,  indorses, contingently agrees to purchase or provide funds
for the payment of, or otherwise  becomes  liable upon,  the  obligation  of any
other Person for borrowed  money, or agrees to maintain the net worth or working
capital or other  financial  condition of any other Person or otherwise  assures
any creditor of such other Person against loss.

         "Indebtedness"   means  the   Company's  and  each   Subsidiary's   (a)
obligations  for  borrowed  money,  (b)  obligations  representing  the deferred
purchase price of the property other than accounts payable arising in connection
with the purchase of inventory on terms customary in the trade,  (c) obligations
whether or not assumed and with or without recourse, secured by liens or payable
out of the  proceeds of  production  from  property  now or  hereafter  owned or
acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary and (d) Capitalized Lease Obligations.

         "Interest Period" means (1) with respect to each Money Market Loan, the
period commencing on the date of borrowing specified in the applicable Notice of
Money Market Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.3.(d) and ending one, two, three or
six months  thereafter or such other period as may be agreed between the Company
and the Bank,  as  specified  in such  Notice,  and (2) with respect to each Fed
Funds Loan,  the period  commencing  on the date of  borrowing  specified in the
applicable  Notice of Fed Funds Borrowing  pursuant to Section 2.4 and ending on
the Termination Date;  provided that any Interest Period which begins before the
Termination Date and would otherwise end after the Termination Date shall end on
the Termination Date.

         "Investment"  means any loan,  advance,  extension of credit (excluding
accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business), or contribution
of  capital  by  the  Company  or any  Subsidiary  to any  other  person  or any
investment in, or purchase or other acquisition of, the stock, notes, debentures
or other securities of any person made by the Company or any Subsidiary.

         "Lien" means any security  interest,  mortgage,  pledge,  line,  claim,
charge,  encumbrance,  title retention or conditional  sale agreement,  lessor's
interest under a Financing  Lease or analogous  instrument,  in, of or on any of
the Company's or any Subsidiary's property.

         "Loan  Documents"  shall  have the  meaning  ascribed  to such  term in
Section 6.2 of this Agreement.

         "Loans"  means any Loan made to the Company  under this  Agreement  and
"Loans" means all of such Loans.

         "Money Market Loan" means a Loan made in accordance with Section 2.2.

         "Notes"  means the  Revolving  Note  defined in Section 2.6 or the Term
Note defined in Section 3.3, or both.

         "Notice of Borrowing" means a Notice of Fed Funds Borrowing (as defined
in Section  2.4) or a Notice of Money  Market  Borrowing  (as defined in Section
2.3).

         "Obligations"  means all unpaid  principal and interest under the Notes
and all other  obligations  of the Company or any Subsidiary to the Bank arising
under this Agreement or the Notes.

         "Participant"  shall have the meaning  ascribed to such term in Section
10.17 of this Agreement.

         "Person" means any  corporation,  natural person,  firm, joint venture,
partnership, trust, unincorporated organization, government or any department or
agency of any government.

         "Plan" means a "defined  benefit pension plan" as defined in Section 35
of ERISA,  other than a  "multiemployer  plan" as  defined  in Section  37(A) of
ERISA, as amended by the Multiemployer Pension Amendments Act of 1980, for which
the Company or any Subsidiary  could be held liable for Unfunded  Liabilities by
the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

         "Potential Default" means any event described in Article VIII which but
for the lapse of time or the  giving of  notice,  or both,  would  constitute  a
Default.

         "Prime  Rate" means the rate of interest  publicly  announced by Signet
Bank in Richmond, Virginia, from time to time as its Prime Rate.

         "Refunding Loan" means a loan which,  after application of the proceeds
thereof,  results in no net increase in the outstanding  principal amount of the
Loans.

         "Revolving  Loans"  means the Fed Funds Loans or the Money Market Loans
or both.

         "Revolving  Note"  shall  have the  meaning  ascribed  to such  term in
Section 2.6 of this Agreement.

         "Section" means a numbered  section of this  Agreement,  unless another
document is specifically referenced.

         "Subordinated  Debt" means any  Indebtedness  of the  Company  which is
subordinated  to the payment of the  Obligations on terms approved in writing by
the Bank.

         "Subsidiary"  means a corporation  or other entity of which 50% or more
of the voting stock or other ownership  interest is owned directly or indirectly
by the Company, by one or more of its Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or
more of its Subsidiaries, and the financial statements of which are Consolidated
with  those  of  the  Company  in  preparing  the  Company's  annual  report  to
stockholders,  it being understood that as of the date hereof the Company has no
Subsidiaries  and until the Company has a Subsidiary  all  references  herein to
Consolidated statements and figures shall refer to the Company alone.

         "Tangible   Net  Worth"  means  the  sum  of  (i)  capital  stock  plus
paid-in-capital (less the cost of treasury shares) and (ii) surplus and retained
earnings,  minus (iii) any share capital discount and expenses,  any write-up of
assets (other than permitted by the application of generally accepted accounting
principles),  any aggregate  excess of the carrying  amount over market value of
investments, any goodwill, any patents and any other intangible assets.

         "Term Note" shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.3
of this Agreement.

         "Termination  Date"  means  May 31,  2000,  unless  such  date has been
extended pursuant to Section 2.13.

         "Unfunded Liabilities" means with regard to any Plan, the excess of the
current value of the Plan's benefits  guaranteed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation under ERISA over the current value of the Plan's assets allocable to
such benefits.

         "Unsubordinated  Liabilities"  means all amounts which would be treated
as liabilities on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, excluding, however, Subordinated Debt.

         "Unsubordinated   Funded   Debt"  means  all  Funded  Debt  other  than
Subordinated Debt.

         "Working  Capital"  means  current  assets  minus  current  liabilities
determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

         The  foregoing  definitions  shall be  equally  applicable  to both the
singular and plural of the defined terms.

                                   ARTICLE II
                                    THE LOANS

         SECTION 2.1  Commitment  to Lend Fed Funds Loans.  Subject to the terms
and conditions of this Agreement, (including, without limitation, the limitation
set forth in Section  4.1(b) as to the aggregate  principal  amount of Revolving
Loans at any time  outstanding  hereunder),  the Bank  agrees  to make Fed Funds
Loans to the  Company  from time to time  during the  Availability  Period in an
aggregate  principal  amount  at any one  time  outstanding  not  exceeding  the
Commitment.  Fed Funds Loans made on any one occasion  shall be in the principal
amount of $25,000.  Within  these  limits,  the  Company  may borrow  under this
Section 2.1, prepay  Revolving  Loans to the extent  permitted under Section 2.9
and reborrow during the Availability Period under this Section.

         SECTION 2.2 Letters of Credit. At the Borrower's request, the Bank may,
in its discretion,  issue letters of credit on the Borrower's  behalf so long as
all conditions  pursuant to Article IV have been satisfied.  The undrawn amounts
of such letters of credit shall be treated as Loans hereunder for so long as the
letters of credit remain  outstanding,  except that interest shall not accrue on
such amounts until advances are made thereon and shall thereafter accrue only on
the  unreimbursed  amount of such advances.  Amounts  advanced  pursuant to such
letters of credit shall in all respects be treated as Loans hereunder. Each such
letter of credit  shall be issued  subject to  additional  terms and  conditions
contained in the Bank's standard letter of credit  application and reimbursement
agreement  (which  includes  a letter  of  credit  fee in  addition  to  amounts
otherwise  payable  hereunder),  and such letters of credit shall be in form and
substance satisfactory to the Bank.

         SECTION 2.3  Money Market Loans.

         (a) Parties' Option. In addition to Fed Funds Loans pursuant to Section
2.1,  but  subject to the terms and  conditions  of this  Agreement  (including,
without  limitation,  the  limitation  set  forth in  Section  4.1(b)  as to the
aggregate   principal   amount  of  Revolving  Loans  at  any  time  outstanding
hereunder), from time to time the Company may request the Bank to make offers to
make to the Company  Revolving Loans which are designated as Money Market Loans.
The Bank may, but shall have no obligation to, make such offers, and the Company
may, but shall have no obligation to, accept any such offers.

         (b) Rate Quote  Requests.  When the Company  wishes to request an offer
from the Bank to make Money Market Loans,  it shall notify the Bank by telephone
(each such telephonic  request a "Rate Quote Request") not later than 10:30 a.m.
(Eastern time) on the day of the proposed borrowing (or such other time and date
as the Company and the Bank shall agree), specifying:

                  (i)   the  proposed  date  of  borrowing,  which  shall  be  a
                        Business Day;

                  (ii)  the amount of such  borrowing,  which  shall be at least
                        $1,000,000; and

                  (iii) the duration of the Interest Period or Interest  Periods
                        applicable   thereto,   subject  to  the  definition  of
                        Interest Period.

The Company may  request an offer to make Money  Market  Loans for more than one
Interest  Period in a single Rate Quote  Request.  Each Rate Quote Request shall
constitute  an  invitation  by the  Company  to the Bank to submit a rate  quote
offering  to make a Money  Market  Loan or  Money  Market  Loans  to  which  the
applicable Rat Quote Request relates.

         (c)  Submission  of Rate  Quotes.  The  Bank  may  submit  a  quotation
responding to a Rate Quote Request (each, a "Rate Quote") containing an offer or
offer to make Money  Market  Loans.  Each Rate Quote shall be  submitted  to the
Company by telephone not later than 11:00 a.m.  (Eastern time) on the day of the
proposed  borrowing  (or such  other time and date as the  Company  and the Bank
shall  agree),  specifying  the interest  rate or rates  applicable to the Money
Market Loan (or Money Market Loans) specified in the Rate Quote Request.

         (d)  Acceptance of Rate Quotes and Notice of Borrowing.  Not later than
11:30 a.m.  (Eastern  time) on the day of the proposed  borrowing (or such other
day and time as the Company and the Bank may agree),  the Company  shall  notify
the Bank of its acceptance or  non-acceptance of the offers for the Money Market
Loans submitted to it in the Rate Quotes delivered  pursuant to subparagraph (c)
above.  In the case of  acceptance,  such  notice  (a  "Notice  of Money  Market
Borrowing")  shall specify the offers of the Bank to make Money Market Loans for
each Interest Period that are accepted in whole or in part; provided that:

                  (i) the  principal  amount of each Money  Market  Loan may not
exceed the applicable amount set forth in the related Rate Quote Request; and

                  (ii) the principal amount of each Money Market Loan must be at
least $1,000,000.

         (e)      Funding of Money Market Loans.

                  (i) Not later than 12:30 P.M.  (Richmond  time) on the date of
each Money Market Loan, the Bank will (except as provided in  subparagraph  (ii)
below make  available  the amount of such Money Market Loan, in Federal or other
funds  immediately  available in Richmond,  Virginia,  by depositing  the amount
thereof in the general deposit account of the Company at the Bank.

                  (ii) If the Bank makes a new Money  Market Loan  hereunder  on
the day on which the Company is to repay all or any part of an outstanding Money
Market  Loan,  the Bank shall apply the proceeds of the new Money Market Loan to
make such repayment, and only an amount equal to the difference (if any) between
the amount being borrowed and the amount being repaid shall be made available by
the Bank to the  Company as  provided  in  subsection  (i) of this  Section,  or
remitted by the Company to the Bank as the case may be.

         SECTION 2.4 Method of Fed Funds  Borrowing.  (a) The Company shall give
the Bank notice  (which may be oral) (a "Notice of Fed Funds  Borrowing")  on or
before 1:00 p.m. (Richmond time), specifying:

           (i)    the date of such Fed Funds  Loan,  which  shall be a  Business
                  Day; and

           (ii)   the amount of such Loan.

         (b) Unless the Bank determines that any applicable  condition specified
in this  Agreement  has not been  satisfied,  the Bank will credit the amount of
each requested Revolving Loan to the general deposit account of the Company with
the Bank or, at the  Company's  request  delivered  in  writing  not later  than
contemporaneously  with the  related  Notice  of  Borrowing,  the Bank will wire
transfer  immediately  available  funds in the amount of such  Revolving Loan to
such other bank account of the Company as may be specified in such request.

         SECTION 2.5  Maturity of Loans.  Each Revolving Loan shall mature,  and
the principal  amount  thereof shall be due and payable,  on the last day of the
Interest Period applicable thereto.

         SECTION 2.6   Revolving Note. The Revolving Loans shall be evidenced by
a single  Revolving Note of the Company  substantially  in the form of Exhibit A
(the  "Revolving  Note")  payable to the order of the Bank in an amount equal to
the aggregate  unpaid  principal  amount of the Revolving  Loans. The Bank shall
record,  and prior to any transfer of the  Revolving  Note shall  endorse on the
schedule  forming a part thereof  appropriate  notations to evidence,  the date,
amount  and  maturity  of each  Revolving  Loan and the date and  amount of each
payment  of  principal  made by the  Company  with  respect  thereto;  provided,
however,  that any  failure  by the Bank to make  such a  notation  or any error
therein  shall not in any manner  affect the  obligation of the Company to repay
the  Revolving  Loans in  accordance  with the terms hereof and of the Revolving
Note. The Bank is hereby irrevocably authorized by the Company so to endorse the
Revolving  Note  and to  attach  to and  make a  part  of the  Revolving  Note a
continuation of any such schedule as and when required.

         SECTION 2.7   Interest Rates;  Payments.  (a) The Fed Funds Loans shall
bear interest on the  outstanding  principal  balance  thereof for each day at a
fluctuating rate per annum, calculated in accordance with Section 10.5, equal to
the lower of (i ) the  Prime  Rate;  or (ii) the sum of the Fed Funds  Rate plus
three  quarters of one percent (3/4%) (the Prime Rate and the Fed Funds Rate are
individually  referred  to as an  "Index").  Each  change in the  interest  rate
affecting the  Revolving  Loans shall be effective as of the opening of business
on the effective date of each change in the lower applicable Index.  Payments of
interest  shall  be  made  monthly,  on the  first  day of each  calendar  month
commencing July 1, 1997, and continuing until the Revolving Note has been repaid
in full. The Prime Rate is a rate set by the Bank in Richmond,  Virginia,  based
upon various  factors  including  the Bank's costs and desired  return,  general
economic  conditions,  and other factors,  and is used as a reference  point for
pricing some loans.  The Bank may price loans to other  customers at, above,  or
below the Prime Rate.

         (b) Interest on each Money Market Loan shall be payable on the last day
of the Interest Period applicable thereto,  and if any Interest period is longer
than 30 days, then 30 days after the first day thereof.

         SECTION 2.8  Overdue  Interest Rates. Any overdue  principal of and, to
the extent  permitted by law,  overdue interest on any Loan shall bear interest,
payable on demand,  for each day from and including the date payment thereof was
due to but  excluding the date of actual  payment,  at a rate per annum equal to
the rate of 1% plus the interest rate then in effect for such Loan.

         SECTION 2.9  Prepayment. Money Market Loans may not be prepaid prior to
the end of the Interest Period applicable  thereto.  The Company may at any time
prepay Fed Funds Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty,  provided
such  prepayment  is in the aggregate  amount of $25,000 or any higher  integral
multiple of $25,000.

         SECTION  2.10  Funding  Losses.  If the  Company  makes any  payment of
principal  with  respect to any Money Market Loan on any day other than the last
day of an Interest Period applicable  thereto, or if the Company fails to borrow
any Money Market Loan after the related  Notice of  Borrowing  therefor has been
given to the Bank,  the  Company  shall  reimburse  the Bank on  demand  for any
resulting loss or expense  incurred by it,  including  (without  limitation) any
loss  incurred  in  obtaining,  liquidating  or  employing  deposits  from third
parties,  but  excluding  loss of margin for the period after any such  payment;
provided that the Bank shall have  delivered to the Company a certificate  as to
the amount of any loss or expense,  which certificate shall be conclusive in the
absence of manifest error.

         SECTION 2.11  Commitment  Fees. The Company hereby agrees to pay to the
Bank an annual  commitment  fee in an amount  equal to  13/100ths of one percent
(0.13%) of the Commitment  (the  "Commitment  Fee"),  payable in equal quarterly
installments in arrears, with the first of said installments due on September 1,
1997,  and the remaining  installments  due and payable on the first day of each
December,  March, June and September thereafter.  In the event the Commitment is
available  to the Company for a period less than a full  calendar  quarter,  the
Company agrees to pay to the Bank a pro-rata portion of the aforesaid  quarterly
installment  based on the number of days in the calendar  quarter the Commitment
is  available  to the  Company.  In the event,  pursuant  to Section  2.12,  the
Commitment is reduced during any calendar quarter,  the Company agrees to pay to
the Bank a pro-rata portion of the aforesaid quarterly  installment based on the
actual  amount of the  Commitment  available to the Company for each day in such
calendar quarter.  The obligation of the Company to pay the Commitment Fee shall
terminate upon the termination of the Commitment.

         SECTION 2.12  Optional  Termination  or Reduction  of  Commitment.  The
Borrower may, upon at least 2 Business  Days' notice to the Bank,  (i) terminate
the  Commitment at any time or (ii) reduce by $1,000,000 or any larger  multiple
thereof  the  aggregate  amount of the  Commitment  in  excess of the  aggregate
outstanding  amount of the Revolving  Loans.  If the Commitment is terminated in
its entirety,  any accrued Commitment Fee shall be payable on the effective date
of such termination.

         SECTION 2.13 Extension of Availability  Period. The Availability Period
shall expire  automatically  unless the Borrower makes a written  request to the
Bank not later  than 90 days  prior to  expiration  of the  Availability  Period
requesting an extension of the Availability  Period and such request is approved
by the Bank prior to expiration  of the  Availability  Period.  The right of the
Bank not to extend the Availability Period shall be unconditional and within its
sole  discretion,  notwithstanding  that no Event of Default  exists  under this
Agreement.

                                   ARTICLE III
                                    TERM LOAN

         SECTION  3.1   Amount.  The Bank  agrees to make a term loan (the "Term
Loan") to the Company on the  Termination  Date, in a principal  amount equal to
the amount of the Revolving Note  outstanding on such date, or any part thereof,
as may be  specified  orally in advance by the  Company.  Upon the making of the
Term Loan, the Commitment shall terminate.

         SECTION 3.2   Proceeds.  The proceeds of the Term Loan shall be applied
first to payment of the Revolving  Note.  Any unpaid  balance of such  Revolving
Note   thereafter   remaining,   together  with  accrued   interest,   shall  be
contemporaneously   paid  by  the  Company  to  the  Bank.  Upon  expiration  or
termination of the  Commitment and payment by the Company of all  obligations on
the  Revolving  Note  Company  held by the  Bank,  the Bank  shall  deliver  the
Revolving Note to the Company with a notation that it has been canceled.

         SECTION  3.3   Term Note.  On the  Termination  Date the Company  shall
deliver to the Bank a note in the form of Exhibit B attached  hereto  (the "Term
Note") dated such date and in a principal  amount equal to the principal  amount
of the Term Loan to be made by the Bank. The principal of the Term Note shall be
payable in sixteen (16)  consecutive  equal quarterly  installments on the first
day of each quarter (December,  March, June and September)  commencing the first
day of the month following the first quarter after the Termination Date with the
final  installment  due within 4 years of the  Termination  Date when the unpaid
principal  amount and all accrued and unpaid  interest on the Term Note shall be
payable in full.

         SECTION 3.4  Interest.  The Term Note shall bear interest calculated in
accordance  with  Section  10.5  hereof  from the  date  thereof  on the  unpaid
principal balance from time to time outstanding at a per annum rate equal to (i)
the Prime  Rate,  adjusted  from  time to time on the day of any  change in such
Prime Rate or (ii) the Feds Funds Rate plus one percent (1%), as selected by the
Company.  Accrued  interest on the Term Note shall be paid  monthly on the first
day of each  month  commencing  on the  first  day of the  month  following  the
Termination Date.

         SECTION  3.5   Voluntary  Prepayments.  The  Company  may make  full or
partial prepayments for application to the Term Note without premium or penalty,
provided that (i) the Company pays accrued interest on the principal  prepaid to
the date of prepayment, and (ii) any partial prepayment shall be in an aggregate
principal  amount equal to $25,000 or any higher  integral  multiple of $25,000.
Each  partial  prepayment  shall be  applied  first to the  payment  of  accrued
interest and then to installments of principal in the inverse order of maturity.

                                   ARTICLE IV

           CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CLOSING AGREEMENT AND MAKING LOANS

         The  obligation  of  the  Bank  to  make  a  Loan  is  subject  to  the
satisfaction of the following conditions:

         SECTION 4.1  All Revolving Loans.  In the case of each Revolving Loan:

         (a) receipt by the Bank of a Notice of Borrowing as required by Section
2.3(d) or 2.4, as the case may be;

         (b)  the  fact  that,   immediately  after  such  Loan,  the  aggregate
outstanding  principal  amount  of the  Revolving  Loans  will  not  exceed  the
Commitment;

         (c) the fact that immediately after such Loan, no Potential Default (or
in the case of a Refunding  Loan,  Default or Potential  Default  under  Section
8.1(b) has occurred and is continuing or would result from such loan;

         (d) the fact  that the  representations  and  warranties  contained  in
Article VI hereof (except,  in the case of a Refunding Loan, the representations
and  warranties set forth in Sections 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10 and in the second
sentence of Section 6.5), shall be true and correct on and as of the date of the
proposed Loan as though made on and as of such date; and

         (e) no change shall have occurred in any law or  regulation  thereunder
or  interpretation  thereof  which in the  opinion of counsel for the Bank would
make it illegal for the Bank to make the Loans as provided herein.

         SECTION 4.2 First Borrowing. In the case of the first Revolving Loan:

         (a) receipt by the Bank of a duly executed  Revolving Note, dated on or
before the date of such Loan, complying with the provisions of Section 2.6;

         (b)  receipt  by the Bank of an  opinion  addressed  to the  Bank  from
Messrs. McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, counsel for the Company,  substantially
in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto; and

         (c)  receipt  by the Bank of such  other  documents  as the Bank  shall
require, all in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank, including,  without
limitation, appropriate corporate resolutions and certificates of incumbency.

         SECTION 4.3  Term Loan.  Prior to making the Term Loan,  the Bank shall
receive an  appropriately  completed and executed  Term Note,  and the following
conditions shall have been satisfied:

         (a) no event shall have occurred and be  continuing or condition  shall
exist, or would result from the proposed Loan, which  constitutes or, with lapse
of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a Default (as defined
in Section 8.1); and

         (b) no change shall have occurred in any law or  regulation  thereunder
or  interpretation  thereof  which in the  opinion of counsel for the Bank would
make it illegal for the Bank to make the Loans as provided herein.


                                    ARTICLE V
                              BORROWING PROCEDURES

         The following procedures shall be applicable to each Revolving Loan.

         SECTION 5.1  Authorized  Representatives.  The Company shall certify to
the Bank the name,  title and true  signature  of each  officer  of the  Company
authorized  to sign the Notes and give Notice of Borrowing  hereunder.  The Bank
may conclusively rely on such certification  until it receives written notice to
the contrary from the Company.

         SECTION 5.2 Funds.  The Bank shall make available to the Company on the
date of borrowing the amount of such borrowing in immediately available funds at
its main office in Richmond, Virginia, during its normal business hours.

         SECTION 5.3  Method of Payment All payments of principal,  interest and
fees shall be made by the Company to the Bank in immediately available funds and
in U. S. Dollars.


                                   ARTICLE VI
                          REPRESENTATION AND WARRANTIES

         The Company represents and warrants to the Bank, as of the date of this
Agreement, that

         SECTION  6.1   Corporate  Existence  And  Standing.  The  Company  is a
corporation duly  incorporated,  validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of  Virginia  and the Company has all  requisite  authority  to conduct its
business in each  jurisdiction  in which its business is  conducted  and whether
failure  to have such  authority  would have a  material  adverse  effect on the
Company.

         SECTION 6.2   Authorization and Validity. The execution and delivery by
the Company of this  Agreement and the Notes  (together,  the "Loan  Documents")
have been duly authorized by proper corporate proceedings and this Agreement and
the Revolving Note constitute, and the Term Note when executed and delivered for
value will  constitute,  legal,  valid and  binding  obligations  of the Company
enforceable in accordance with their  respective terms except as the same may be
limited by bankruptcy,  insolvency,  reorganization and other laws affecting the
enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by usual equity principles.

         SECTION 6.3  Compliance with Laws and Contracts.  Neither the execution
and  delivery  by the Company of the Loan  Documents,  the  consummation  of the
transactions  herein  contemplated,  nor compliance with the provisions  thereof
will violate any law,  rule,  regulation,  order,  writ,  judgment,  injunction,
decree  or  award  binding  on  the  Company  or  the   Company's   articles  of
incorporation  or by-laws or the  provisions  of any  indenture,  instrument  or
agreement  to which the  Company is a party or  conflict  with or  constitute  a
default thereunder, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien pursuant
to the terms of any such indenture, instrument or agreement.

         SECTION  6.4   No  Governmental  or  Other  Approvals.  The  execution,
delivery and performance of the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated
hereby do not  require any  approval  or consent  of, or filing or  registration
with, any governmental agency, stockholders,  or any other party, except for the
filing of this  Agreement  with the  Securities  and Exchange  Commission  as an
exhibit  to any  report  of the  Company  pursuant  to ss.13  of the  Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.

         SECTION 6.5   Financial  Statements.  The  financial  statements of the
Company  contained in the Company's  Form 10-K Annual Report for the fiscal year
ended  January 25, 1997,  and in the  Company's  10-Q  Quarterly  Report for the
fiscal  quarter  ended April 26, 1997,  filed with the  Securities  and Exchange
Commission,  copies of which have been  heretofore  delivered to the Bank,  were
prepared in accordance with generally accepted  accounting  principles in effect
on the dates such  statements  were  prepared and fairly  present the  financial
condition of the Company at the dates of such  statements and the results of its
operations  for the  periods  then  ended.  No  material  adverse  change in the
condition  of the Company as shown on such  financial  statements  has  occurred
since the dates thereof.

         SECTION 6.6   Taxes.  The Company has filed all United  States  Federal
income tax returns and all other tax returns  which are required to be filed and
has paid all taxes due  pursuant to said  returns or pursuant to any  assessment
received by the Company,  except such taxes,  if any, as are being  contested in
good faith and as to which adequate  reserves have been  provided.  The charges,
accruals  and  reserves  on the books of the  Company in respect of any taxes or
other governmental charges are adequate.

         SECTION 6.7   Litigation.  There is no litigation or proceeding pending
or, to the  knowledge  of any of its  officers,  threatened  against the Company
which might  materially  adversely  affect the  condition  of the Company or the
ability of the Company to perform the Obligations.

         SECTION 6.8  ERISA. As of the date of this Agreement,  the Company does
not maintain or contribute to a "multiemployer plan" as defined in Section 37(A)
of ERISA,  as amended in 1980 or any Plan.  The Company is not in the process of
terminating  any Plan.  To the best of the Company's  knowledge  and belief,  no
fact,  including  any event  described in Section  4043 of ERISA (a  "Reportable
Event"),  exists in connection with any Plan which might constitute  grounds for
the termination of any Plan by the Pension Benefit  Guaranty  Corporation or the
appointment  by the  appropriate  United States  district  court of a trustee to
administer any Plan.

         SECTION 6.9  Defaults. No Default or Potential Default has occurred and
is  continuing.  The  Company  is  not  in  default  in  respect  of  any of its
Indebtedness for borrowed money and no holder of any such Indebtedness has given
notice of an asserted default thereunder.  No liquidation,  dissolution or other
winding up of the Company and no bankruptcy or similar  proceedings  relative to
the Company are pending or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened.

         SECTION 6.10 Accuracy of Information. No information, exhibit or report
furnished by the Company to the Bank in connection  with the  negotiation of the
Loan  Documents  contains any untrue  statement  of a material  fact or Omits to
state a material .act necessary to make the statements  contained therein in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading.

         SECTION 6.11 Regulation U. The Company is not engaged  principally,  or
as one of its important activities,  in the business of extending credit for the
purpose of purchasing or carrying  "margin stock" (as defined in Regulation U of
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System).

                                   ARTICLE VII
                                    COVENANTS
         During the term of this  Agreement,  and until the Obligations are paid
in full, unless the Bank shall otherwise consent in writing:

         SECTION 7.1  Financial Reporting. The Company will maintain, for itself
and each Subsidiary, a modern system of accounting, and furnish to the Bank:

         (a)  Within 90 days  after the close of each of its  fiscal  years,  an
unqualified  audit report certified by Price Waterhouse or other  accountants of
recognized  national  standing,  prepared in accordance with generally  accepted
accounting  principles,   consistently  applied  (except  for  changes  in  such
principles  or  their  application  as  approved  by  such  accountants),  on  a
Consolidated basis for itself and the Subsidiaries,  including balance sheets as
of the end of such period, related profit and loss and reconciliation of surplus
statements, and a statement of change in cash flow, accompanied by a certificate
of such  accountants  that, in the course of their  examination  necessary  for,
their  certification  of the  foregoing,  they have obtained no knowledge of any
Default or Potential  Default,  or if, in the opinion of such  accountants,  any
Default or Potential  Default  shall  exist,  such  certificate  shall state the
nature and status thereof;

         (b) Within 60 days after the close of the first three quarterly periods
of each of its  fiscal  years,  for itself  and the  Subsidiaries,  Consolidated
unaudited  balance  sheets as at the close of each such period and  Consolidated
profit and loss and  reconciliation  of surplus  statements  and a statement  of
change in cash flow for the period from the beginning of such fiscal year to the
end of  such  quarter,  all  prepared  in  accordance  with  generally  accepted
accounting  principles,   consistently  applied  (except  for  changes  in  such
principles or their  application  as approved by the Company's  chief  financial
officer), and certified by its chief financial officer;

         (c) Together  with the  financial  statements  required  under  Section
7.1(a) and (b) above, a certificate, dated as of the end of the fiscal period to
which the financial  statements  apply,  signed by the Company's chief financial
officer  stating  that to the best of his  knowledge  and belief  there  neither
exists on the date of such  certificate,  nor existed  during such  period,  any
Default  or  Potential  Default,  or if any such  Default or  Potential  Default
existed or exists, the certificate shall specify the nature thereof,  the period
of  existence  thereof  and what  action the  Company  has  taken,  is taking or
proposes to take with respect thereto;

         (d) Within 90 days after the close of each fiscal  year, a statement of
the  Unfunded  Liabilities  of each Plan which  exceed  $100,000,  certified  as
correct by an actuary enrolled under ERISA;

         (e) As soon as  possible  and in any  event  within  10 days  after the
Company knows that any Reportable  Event (as described in Section 4043 of ERISA)
has occurred  with respect to any Plan and is required to report the same to the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, a statement, signed by the chief financial
officer of the Company,  describing such  Reportable  Event and the action which
the Company proposes to take with respect thereto;

         (f) Promptly upon their becoming available, (i) copies of all financial
statements,  proxy  statements  and reports  which the Company shall send to its
stockholders,  and (ii) copies of all regular and periodic financial reports, if
any, which the Company shall file with the  Securities and Exchange  Commission,
or any governmental agency or agencies substituted  therefor,  or any similar or
corresponding governmental department,  commission,  board, bureau or agency, or
with any national securities exchange; and

         (g) Such other information (including non-financial information) as the
Bank may from time to time reasonably request.

         SECTION 7.2  Use of Proceeds.  The Company will use the proceeds of the
Loans only for working capital and other general corporate purposes.

         SECTION 7.3  Consolidated Tangible Net Worth. The Company will maintain
Consolidated  Tangible Net Worth (i) for the fiscal year  beginning  January 25,
1997, of not less than $40,500,000 and (ii) for each fiscal year thereafter,  of
not less than  $40,500,000  plus eighty percent (80%) of each successive  year's
net income. In no event,  however,  shall the Consolidated Tangible Net Worth as
calculated herein be reduced in the event of any net loss for any fiscal year.

         SECTION 7.4 Current  Ratio.  The Company will maintain as of the end of
each  of  its  fiscal  quarters  a  ratio  of  Consolidated  current  assets  to
Consolidated current liabilities of not less than 2.5 to 1. For purposes of this
ratio,  the principal  amount of Loans  outstanding  hereunder and the principal
amount of loans  outstanding  under the credit  agreement dated as of August 31,
1990  between the Company  and  Crestar  Bank (in each case,  except the current
portion thereof) shall be classified as Funded Debt.

         SECTION  7.5   Ratio  of  Consolidated  Unsubordinated  Liabilities  to
Consolidated  Effective Tangible Net Worth. The Company will maintain at the end
of each fiscal  quarter a ratio of  Consolidated  Unsubordinated  Liabilities to
Consolidated Effective Tangible Net Worth of not greater than 1.25 to 1.

         SECTION 7.6 Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. The Company will not, nor will
it permit any Subsidiary to, permit,  as of the end of each fiscal quarter,  the
ratio of (a) the sum of profit before tax,  non-cash  charges,  interest expense
(including  interest on  Capitalized  Lease  Obligations)  and  operating  lease
payments  (all for the four most  recent  fiscal  quarters  ending  prior to the
quarter in which the  determination  is made) to (b) the sum of interest expense
(including interest on Capitalized Lease Obligations), operating lease payments,
Capitalized  Lease  Obligations  and  payments  due on Funded  Debt for the four
ensuing fiscal  quarters  (including the quarter in which the  determination  is
made),  and one (1)  times  cash  dividends  for the  four  most  recent  fiscal
quarters, to be less than 1.25 to 1.

         SECTION  7.7   Notice of Default.  The Company will and will cause each
Subsidiary to give prompt notice in writing to the Bank of the occurrence of any
Default  or  Potential  Default  and  of any  other  development,  financial  or
otherwise, which might materially and adversely affect its business,  properties
or affairs or the ability of the Company to perform the Obligations.

         SECTION 7.8   Conduct of Business and  Maintenance  of  Existence.  The
Company will and will cause each Subsidiary to carry on and conduct its business
in  substantially  the same  manner  and in  substantially  the same  fields  of
enterprise as it is presently  conducted and related  fields;  and do all things
necessary to remain duly incorporated,  validly existing and in good standing as
a domestic  corporation in its  jurisdiction of  incorporation  and maintain all
requisite governmental authority to conduct its business in each jurisdiction in
which failure to maintain such authority would have a material adverse effect on
the Company.  Notwithstanding  the above,  a Subsidiary  may be dissolved if the
continued  existence  of such  Subsidiary  is not  material  to the  business or
consolidated financial condition of the Company and its remaining Subsidiaries.

         SECTION 7.9 Taxes.  The Company will and will cause each  Subsidiary to
pay when due all taxes,  assessments and governmental charges and levies upon it
or its income,  profits or property,  except those which are being  contested in
good  faith by  appropriate  proceedings  and  with  respect  to which  adequate
reserves have been set aside.

         SECTION 7.10 Insurance. The Company will and will cause each Subsidiary
to maintain  insurance in such amounts and covering  such risks as is consistent
with sound business practice.

         SECTION  7.11  Inspection.   The  Company  will  and  will  cause  each
Subsidiary  to permit  the Bank by its  representatives  and  agents  and at its
expense, to inspect any of the properties, corporate books and financial records
of the Company and each  Subsidiary,  to examine and make copies of the books of
account and other financial  records of the Company and each Subsidiary,  and to
discuss the affairs,  finances  and accounts of the Company and each  Subsidiary
with, and to be advised as to the same by, its officers at such reasonable times
in intervals as the Bank may designate.

         SECTION 7.12 Mergers, Acquisitions and Sale of Assets. The Company will
not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to:

         (a) Merge or consolidate with or into any other Person;

         (b) lease, sell or otherwise  dispose of all, or a substantial  portion
of, its property, assets or business to any other Person; or

         (c) lease,  purchase or otherwise acquire all, or a substantial portion
of, the property,  assets or business of any other  Person,  except that (i) any
wholly-owned  Subsidiary  may merge  with,  or transfer  its assets to,  another
wholly-owned  Subsidiary  or to the  Company,  (ii)  the  Company  may  merge or
consolidate  with another Person if the Company is the surviving  entity and if,
after giving effect to the merger or consolidation, there would exist no Default
or Potential Default  hereunder,  (iii) assets may be leased,  sold or otherwise
disposed  of  provided   such  assets  are  not  material  to  the  business  or
Consolidated  financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries,  (iv) the
Company  may  purchase  or  acquire  its  inventory  from a Person  even if such
inventory  constitutes all or a substantial  portion of the property,  assets or
business of such Person,  (v)  inventory  may be sold in the ordinary  course of
business  of the  Company  or any  Subsidiary,  and (vi)  sales,  lease or other
dispositions  in any fiscal year of the Company in an  aggregate  amount for the
Company and all Subsidiaries not to exceed $2,000,000 shall be permitted.

         SECTION 7.13 Sale of Accounts. The Company will not, nor will it permit
any Subsidiary to, sell or otherwise dispose of any notes receivable or accounts
receivable,  with or without  recourse,  having an aggregate  face value of more
than $400,000.

         SECTION 7.14 Investments.  The Company will not, nor will it permit any
Subsidiary to, make or suffer to exist any Investments, or commitments therefor,
except:

         (a) Short-term  obligations of, or fully  guaranteed as to interest and
principal by, the United States of America.

         (b)  Commercial  paper of any Person  rated at least A2 by Standard and
Poor's or P2 by Moody's Investors Service, Inc.

         (c) Demand deposit  accounts  maintained in the ordinary  course of its
business, or that of its Subsidiaries.

         (d)  Certificates of deposit issued by commercial  banks having capital
and surplus in excess of $100,000,000.

         (e) Investments in Subsidiaries, if, after giving effect thereto, there
would exist no Default or Potential Default hereunder.

         (f) Repurchase of the Company's  outstanding  shares,  if, after giving
effect  thereto,  there  would not exist any  Default or any  Potential  Default
hereunder.

         (g) Notes or other  securities of any Person issued in connection  with
any disposition of assets permitted by this Agreement.

         (h) Any other Investments which, in the aggregate,  are less than 5% of
the Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of the Company and its Subsidiaries.

         SECTION 7.15  Guaranties.  The Company will not, nor will it permit any
Subsidiary  to,  make or  suffer  to exist any  Guaranties,  other  than for the
benefit of the Bank (which includes the Company's  guaranty of loans made by the
Bank to officers of the Company),  except (a) by endorsement of instruments  for
deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business and (b) the guaranty by
the  Company  of the  obligations  of any  Subsidiary  or issuing  authority  in
connection  with any industrial  revenue bonds issued to finance the purchase or
construction  of  facilities  to be purchased by or leased to the Company or any
Subsidiary.

         SECTION  7.16  Liens.  The  Company  will not,  nor will it permit  any
Subsidiary to, create, incur, or suffer to exist any Lien, except,

         (a)      Those in favor of the Company by its Subsidiaries.

         (b) Those for taxes,  assessments or governmental  charges or levies on
its property if the same shall not at the time be delinquent  or thereafter  can
be paid without penalty, or are being contested in good faith and by appropriate
proceedings.

         (c)  Those  imposed  by law,  such as liens in  favor  of  lessors  for
distraint and similar  remedies and  carriers',  warehousemen's  and  mechanics'
liens and other similar liens arising in the ordinary  course of business  which
secure  payment of  obligations  not more than 90 days past due, or, if the same
are more than 90 days past due, if they are being contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings.

         (d)  Those   arising  out  of  pledges  or  deposits   under   worker's
compensation laws,  unemployment  insurance,  old age pensions,  or other social
security or retirement benefits, or similar legislation.

         (e)   Utility   easements,   building   restrictions   and  such  other
encumbrances  or charges  against  real  property  as are of a nature  generally
existing with respect to  properties of a similar  character and which do not in
any material  way affect the  salability  of the same or interfere  with the use
thereof in the business of the Company or the Subsidiaries.

         (f) Liens  and  charges  for  maintenance,  repairs  and  operation  of
facilities  owned  or  leased  by the  Company  or its  Subsidiaries  or used in
connection therewith,  arising under joint easement and maintenance  agreements,
reciprocal  easement  agreements  or  similar  documents  governing  the  use or
occupancy of such facilities.

         (g) Judgment  liens not in existence  for a period  longer than 60 days
after the creation thereof, or, if a stay of execution shall have been obtained,
for a period longer than 60 days after the expiration of such stay.

         (h) Lessors' interest under Financing Leases.

         (i) Liens  securing the  purchase or deferred  price of fixed assets if
the Lien extends only to the property acquired.

         (j)  Equitable  liens in favor of dissenting  shareholders  of acquired
corporations  for the  fair  market  value  of  their  shares  of  stock of such
corporations.

         (k) Liens in addition to those  permitted  above  securing an aggregate
amount not  exceeding 1% of the  Consolidated  Tangible Net Worth of the Company
and its Subsidiaries at any one time.

         (l) Liens securing the repayment of  indebtedness  evidenced by two (2)
industrial  development bonds issued by the Industrial  Development Authority of
the County of Henrico,  Virginia,  the first in the original principal amount of
$3,000,000  dated  December 1, 1983,  and the second in the  original  principal
amount of $1,500,000 dated November 1, 1984.

         SECTION 7.17 Prepayment of Subordinated Debt. The Company will not, nor
will it  permit  any  Subsidiary  to,  prepay,  in whole or in part (or upon the
occurrence and continuation of a Default, repay), the principal amount of any of
its Subordinated Debt without the prior written consent of the Bank.

         SECTION 7.18 Purchase of Stock,  Money Market Instruments . The Company
will not, nor will it permit any  Subsidiary to, extend credit to others for the
purpose of purchasing or carrying any "margin stock" (as defined in Regulation U
promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal  Reserve system) or use any
of the proceeds of the Loans made under this  Agreement to purchase or carry any
"margin stock",  or to invest in money market  investments of the Bank or any of
its affiliates.


                                  ARTICLE VIII
                                    DEFAULTS

         SECTION 8.1   Events of Default.  The  occurrence of any one or more of
the following events shall constitute a Default:

         (a) Any material  representation or warranty made by the Company to the
Bank under or in connection with any Loan Document shall be materially  false as
of the date on which made.

         (b)  Nonpayment  of  principal of or interest on any of the Notes or of
the Commitment Fee within 10 days after the same becomes due.

         (c) The  breach by the  Company  of any of the terms or  provisions  of
Sections 7.2, 7.3, 7.5, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 7.14, 7.15, 7.16 or 7.17.

         (d) The breach by the Company (other than a breach which  constitutes a
Default  under  Sections  8.1(a),  (b),  or (c)) of any of the  other  terms  or
provisions of this  Agreement  which is not remedied  within 45 days (or, in the
case of Section 7.4, 30 days) after written notice from the Bank.

         (e) Failure of the Company or any Subsidiary to pay any Indebtedness in
a principal  amount  exceeding  $400,000  when due,  including  any grace period
permitted under the terms of such Indebtedness.

         (f) The  Company  or any  Subsidiary  shall  (i) not  pay,  or admit in
writing its inability to pay, its debts  generally as they become due, (ii) make
an assignment for the benefit of creditors,  (iii) apply for, seek,  consent to,
or acquiesce in, the appointment of a receiver,  custodian,  trustee,  examiner,
liquidator or similar  official for it or any substantial  part of its property,
(iv) institute any proceeding  seeking to adjudicate it insolvent,  or seeking a
decree  or  order  for  relief  in  bankruptcy  or   dissolution,   winding  up,
liquidation, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of it or its
debts under any law relating to  bankruptcy,  insolvency  or  reorganization  or
relief  of  debtors  or fail to file an  answer or other  pleading  denying  the
material  allegations  of any such  proceeding  filed  against  it, (v) take any
corporate  action to authorize or effect any of the foregoing  actions set forth
in this Section 8.1(f), or (vi) fail to contest in good faith any appointment or
proceeding described in Section 8.1(g).

         (g) Without the application,  approval or consent of the Company or any
Subsidiary,  a receiver,  custodian,  trustee,  examiner.' liquidator or similar
official shall be appointed for the Company or any Subsidiary or any substantial
part of its property,  or a proceeding  described in Section  8.1.6(d)  shall be
instituted against the Company or any Subsidiary and such appointment  continues
undischarged or such proceeding  continues  undismissed or unstayed for a period
of 60 days.

         (h) Any court,  government or governmental agency shall condemn,  seize
or  otherwise  appropriate,  or take custody or control of all or any portion of
the property of the Company or any  Subsidiary  which is material to the conduct
of the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries on a Consolidated  basis and
for which the Company does not receive fair market compensation therefor.

         (i) The  Company or any  Subsidiary  shall fail  within 60 days to pay,
bond or  otherwise  discharge  any judgment or order for the payment of money in
excess  of  $400,000,   which  is  not  stayed  on  appeal  or  otherwise  being
appropriately contested in good faith.

         (j) The Unfunded Liabilities of all Plans shall exceed in the aggregate
$500,000.

         SECTION 8.2   Acceleration  and  Recourse.  Upon the  occurrence of any
event described in Section 8.1 hereof, the Bank may, at its option, by notice of
default given to the Company,  terminate the Bank's Commitment and, if Loans are
then  outstanding,  declare the then  outstanding  Note to be forthwith  due and
payable,  whereupon  the  principal  amount of such Note  together  with accrued
interest thereon shall become  immediately due and payable without  presentment,
demand,  protest, or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly
waived by the  Company.  The Bank shall have the right to offset the amount owed
by the Company  hereunder or under any other  obligation to the Bank against any
account,  checking,  savings or  otherwise,  which the Company may have with the
Bank,  or against any amounts  owed by the Bank in any  capacity to the Company,
whether or not due, and the Bank shall be deemed to have exercised such right of
offset and to have made a charge against any such account or amounts immediately
upon the  occurrence of a Default  hereunder  even though such charge is made or
entered on the Bank's books subsequent thereto.  The Bank agrees to use its best
efforts to notify the Company of the  exercise of such right of offset,  but the
failure to give any such notice shall not subject the Bank to any liability.


                                   ARTICLE IX
                             CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES
                            AFFECTING FED FUNDS LOANS

         SECTION  9.1   Illegality.  If, after the date of this  Agreement,  the
adoption of any applicable law, rule or regulation,  or any change  therein,  or
any change in the  interpretation or administration  thereof by any governmental
authority,  central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or
administration  thereof, or compliance by the Bank with any request or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) of any such authority,  central bank or
comparable  agency  shall make it unlawful or  impossible  for the Bank to make,
maintain or fund the Fed Funds  Loans and the Bank shall so notify the  Company,
whereupon until the Bank notifies the Company that the circumstances giving rise
to such suspension no longer exist, the obligation of the Bank to make Fed Funds
Loans  shall be  suspended.  If such  notice is given,  all Fed Funds Loans made
after the date of such notice shall bear interest at the  applicable  Prime Rate
less 1/2%.

         SECTION 9.2   Increased Cost. If after the date hereof, the adoption of
any applicable law, rule or regulation,  or any change therein, or any change in
the  interpretation  or  administration  thereof by any governmental  authority,
central  bank  or  comparable   agency  charged  with  the   interpretation   or
administration  thereof, or compliance by the Bank with any request or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) of any such authority,  central bank or
comparable agency:

         (i)  shall  subject  the Bank to any tax,  duty or  other  charge  with
         respect to the Loans, the Notes or its obligation to make the Loans, or
         shall  change  the basis of  taxation  of  payments  to the Bank of the
         principal  of or interest  on the Loans or any other  amounts due under
         this  Agreement in respect of its Loans or its obligation to make Loans
         (except for changes in the rate of tax on the overall net income of the
         Bank  imposed  by  the  jurisdiction  in  which  the  Bank's  principal
         executive office is located);

         (ii) shall  impose,  modify or deem  applicable  any  reserve,  special
         deposit or similar requirement (including, without limitation, any such
         requirement  imposed by the Board of Governors  of the Federal  Reserve
         system  against  assets of,  deposits  with or for the  account  of, or
         credit  extended  by,  the Bank or shall  impose  on the Bank any other
         condition  affecting the Loans, the Notes or its obligation to make the
         Loans; or

         (iii) has or would  have the effect of  reducing  the rate of return on
         the Bank's capital as a consequence of its  obligations  hereunder to a
         level  below  that  which the Bank  could  have  achieved  but for such
         adoption,  change or compliance  (taking into  consideration the Bank's
         policies with respect to capital adequacy),

and the result of any of the  foregoing  is to increase  the cost to the Bank or
making or  maintaining  any Loan, or to reduce the amount of any sum received or
receivable  by the Bank under  this  Agreement  or under the Notes with  respect
thereto,  by an amount deemed by the Bank to be material,  then,  within 15 days
after  demand by the Bank,  the  Company  shall pay to the Bank such  additional
amount  or  amounts  as will  compensate  the Bank for  such  increased  cost or
reduction.  The Bank will  promptly  notify the Company of any event of which it
has knowledge,  occurring after the date hereof,  which will entitle the Bank to
compensation  pursuant  to this  Section.  A  certificate  of the Bank  claiming
compensation  under this  Section and  setting  forth the  additional  amount or
amounts  to be paid to it  hereunder  shall  be  conclusive  in the  absence  of
manifest  error.  In  determining  such amount,  the Bank may use any reasonable
averaging and attribution methods.


                                    ARTICLE X
                                  MISCELLANEOUS

         SECTION 10.1 Notices.  All written notices hereunder shall be deemed to
have been given (a) when  delivered at the address  specified  on the  signature
pages hereto or (b) three calendar days after the same shall have been deposited
in the United  States mail,  by certified or  registered  mail,  return  receipt
requested,  postage  prepaid,  or (c) when  delivered to the  telegraph  company
addressed to such party at its address set forth on the signature  pages hereto,
or in any event at any other  address  specified in writing to the person giving
such notice.

         SECTION 10.2 Term of Agreement. This Agreement shall continue in effect
so long as any  Commitment,  Loan,  Note or  obligation  of the  Company for any
interest shall be outstanding.

         SECTION 10.3 No Waivers.  No failure or delay by the Bank in exercising
any right hereunder  shall operate as a waiver thereof;  nor shall any single or
partial  exercise  thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the
exercise  of any other  right.  The  rights and  remedies  herein  provided  are
cumulative  and not  exclusive of any rights or remedies  otherwise  provided by
law.

         SECTION  10.4  Governing  Law.  This  Agreement  and each Note shall be
construed in  accordance  with and governed by the laws of the  Commonwealth  of
Virginia.

         SECTION 10.5  Computation  of Interest.  Interest  shall be  calculated
daily on the  unpaid  principal  balance of the  outstanding  Notes and shall be
computed  on the basis of a year of 365 days and paid for the  actual  number of
days for which due. Such daily computation  shall not be compounded.  If the due
date for any payment of  principal  is extended by  operation  of law,  interest
shall be payable for such extended time. If any payment  becomes due on a day on
which banks generally in Richmond,  Virginia are required or permitted by law to
remain closed, such payment may be made on the next succeeding day on which such
banks are open,  and such extension  shall be included in computing  interest in
connection with such payment.

         SECTION  10.6  Expenses,  Taxes,  etc.  The  Company  agrees to pay all
reasonable  out-of-pocket  expenses  of the  Bank  and the  reasonable  fees and
expenses  of counsel to the Bank,  in  connection  with the  preparation  of all
documentation in connection with this Agreement (including,  without limitation,
any such fees and expenses  incurred by the Bank in connection with an amendment
made pursuant to Section 10.11 hereof),  the Loans and the enforcement  thereof,
whether or not any Loans are made. The Company agrees to indemnify the Bank from
and hold it harmless  against,  any taxes,  charges or penalties  (other than in
respect of taxes  imposed upon or measured by the income of the Bank) imposed by
any  governmental  authority  by reason of the  execution  and  delivery of this
Agreement or the issuance or the  acquisition  of the Notes or the making of any
Loans  unless  any such  tax,  charge  or  penalty  shall be the  result  of the
negligence or misconduct of the Bank. In the event that the Bank shall retain at
any time an attorney to collect, enforce or protect its interest with respect to
this Agreement, any Loan or any Note, the Company shall pay all of the costs and
expenses of such  collection,  enforcement or protection,  including  reasonable
fees of attorneys, and the Bank may take judgment for all such amounts.

         SECTION 10.7  Payments in  Immediately  Available  Funds.  All payments
required of the Company or the Bank under this  Agreement  or under a Note shall
be made in funds  immediately  available to the Bank at the prescribed  place of
payment.

         SECTION 10.8 Accounting  Terms.  Unless expressly  otherwise defined in
this  Agreement,  all  accounting  terms  shall  be  defined,  and  all  account
computations  shall be made, in accordance  with generally  accepted  accounting
principles.

         SECTION  10.9  Representations  of the Bank.  The Bank  represents  and
warrants to the Company that neither the Bank nor anyone acting on behalf of the
Bank has directly or indirectly  offered any interest  hereunder or the right to
purchase  the Notes or any interest  therein or  solicited  any offer to buy any
thereof,  or otherwise  negotiated with respect thereto,  with anyone other than
the Company and the Bank.  The Bank  represents and warrants to the Company that
the  Bank  has  no  intention  of  participating  and  covenants  that  it  will
participate  with  respect  to the  Loans  only if and to the  extent  that such
participation is permitted under  applicable  state and federal  securities laws
and the rules and regulations issued thereunder.

         SECTION 10.10 Repayments in Bankruptcy.  In the event any amount of the
indebtedness  of the  Company to the Bank  hereunder  is paid by the Company and
because of  bankruptcy  or other laws  relating  to  creditors'  rights the Bank
repays any such amounts to the Company or to any trustee, receiver or otherwise,
then the amounts so repaid shall again  become part of the Loans  payable by the
Company.

         SECTION 10.11 Changes,  Waivers,  etc This Agreement may not be amended
or terminated,  nor any term hereof waived,  orally,  but only by a statement in
writing signed by the parties hereto.

         SECTION 10.12 Singular and Plural.  Terms in the singular  number shall
include the plural and those in the plural shall include the singular.

         SECTION 10.13 Use of Defined Terms. All terms defined in this Agreement
shall have the defined  meanings  when used in the Notes and in other  documents
delivered  pursuant  to this  Agreement,  unless  the  context  shall  otherwise
require.

         SECTION 10.14  Binding  Effect of Agreement.  This  Agreement  shall be
binding  upon and  inure  to the  benefit  of the  Company,  the Bank and  their
respective  successors and assigns,  provided that the Company may not assign or
transfer its rights hereunder.

         SECTION  10.15  Headings.  Headings and captions have been inserted for
convenience  only and shall not be construed as limiting or affecting in any way
the provisions of the Agreement.

         SECTION 10.16 Counterparts.  This Agreement may be signed in any number
of  counterparts  with the same effect as if such  signatures were upon the same
instrument.

         SECTION  10.17 Successors  and  Assigns.  (a)  The  provisions  of this
Agreement  shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties  hereto
and their  respective  successors  and assigns,  except that the Company may not
assign or otherwise  transfer any of its rights under this Agreement without the
prior written consent of the Bank.

         (b) The  Bank  may at any  time  grant  to one or more  banks  or other
institutions (each a "Participant") participating interests in the Commitment or
in any or all of the  Loans or any Note.  In the event of any such  grant by the
Bank of a participating interest to a Participant, whether or not upon notice to
the  Company,  the Bank shall  remain  responsible  for the  performance  of its
obligations  hereunder,  and the Bank shall continue to deal solely and directly
with the Company in connection with the Bank's rights and obligations under this
Agreement.   Any  agreement  pursuant  to  which  the  Bank  may  grant  such  a
participation  interest  shall provide that the Bank shall retain the sole right
and   responsibility  to  enforce  the  obligations  of  the  Company  hereunder
including, without limitation, the right to approve any amendment,  modification
or waiver of any provision of this Agreement;  provided that such  participation
agreement  may  provide  that the  Bank  will  not  agree  to any  modification,
amendment or waiver of this Agreement which would have the effect of increasing,
decreasing or extending the  Commitment or subjecting the Bank to any additional
obligation,  reducing  the  principal  of or  rate  of  interest  on  any  Loan,
postponing  the date fixed for any  payment of  principal  of or interest on any
Loan or fees  hereunder  or under the  Notes or of  extending  the  Availability
Period without the consent of the  Participant.  An assignment or other transfer
which is not permitted by subsection  (c) or (d) below shall be given effect for
purposes  of this  Agreement  only to the  extent  of a  participating  interest
granted in accordance with this subsection (b).

         (c) The  Bank  may at any  time  assign  to one or more  banks or other
institutions  (each an "Assignee")  all, or a proportionate  part of all, of its
rights and  obligations  under this  Agreement and the Notes,  and such Assignee
shall assume such rights and obligations,  pursuant to an instrument executed by
such  Assignee  and the Bank,  with (and subject to) the consent of the Company;
provided  that if an Assignee is an affiliate of the Bank, no such consent shall
be required.  Upon  execution and delivery of such an instrument  and payment by
such  Assignee  to the Bank of an  amount  equal to the  purchase  price  agreed
between the Bank and such  Assignee,  such Assignee shall become a Bank party to
this  Agreement and shall have all the rights and  obligations  of a Bank with a
Commitment as set forth in such  instrument of  assumption,  and the  transferor
Bank shall be released from its obligations hereunder to a corresponding extent,
and no  further  consent  or  action by any party  shall be  required.  Upon the
consummation  of any assignment  pursuant to this subsection (c), the transferor
Bank and the Company shall make appropriate arrangements so that, if required, a
new Note is issued to the Assignee.  If the Assignee is not  incorporated  under
the laws of the United States of America or a state thereof,  it shall, prior to
the first date on which  interest or fees are payable  hereunder for its account
deliver  to  the  Company  certification  as  to  exemption  from  deduction  or
withholding of any United States federal income taxes.

         (d) The Bank may at any time  assign  all or any  portion of its rights
under this Agreement and the Note to a Federal  Reserve Bank. No such assignment
shall release the Bank from its obligations hereunder.

         (e) No Assignee,  Participant or other  transferee of the Bank's rights
shall be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 9.3 than the Bank
would have been  entitled  to receive  with  respect to the rights  transferred,
unless such transfer is made with the Company's prior written consent.

         (f) The Bank may furnish any information  concerning the Company in its
possession  from  time  to  time  to  Assignees  and   Participants   (including
prospective  Assignees and  Participants)  and may furnish such  information  in
response to credit inquiries consistent with general banking practice.

         SECTION 10.18 Consent to Jurisdiction.  The Company irrevocably submits
to the jurisdiction of any Virginia State or federal court sitting in the County
of Henrico,  Virginia,  over any suit,  action, or proceeding  arising out of or
relating to this  Agreement.  The Company  irrevocably  waives and agrees not to
assert,  by way of motion,  as a defense or otherwise,  any claim that it is not
subject to the  jurisdiction of any such court, any objection that it may now or
hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding
brought in any such court and any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding
brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

         SECTION  10.19  Enforcement  of  Judgments.  The Company  agrees that a
judgment in any suit, action or proceeding  referred to in Section 10.18 brought
in any such court shall be  conclusive  and binding  upon the Company and may be
enforced in the courts of the United  States of America or the  Commonwealth  of
Virginia (or any other courts to the jurisdiction of which the Company is or may
be subject) by a suit upon such judgment.

         SECTION 10.20 Service of Process. The Company consents to process being
served in any suit, action or proceeding referred to in Section 10.18 by mailing
a copy thereof by registered or certified mail postage  prepaid,  return receipt
requested,  to the  Company's  address  specified in or  designated  pursuant to
Section 10.1.  The Company agrees that such service (a) shall be deemed in every
respect  effective  service of process upon the Company in any such suit, action
or proceeding and (b) shall be taken and held to be valid personal  service upon
and personal delivery to the Company.

         SECTION  10.21   Completeness.  This Agreement  constitutes  the entire
agreement between the parties hereto as to the transactions  contemplated hereby
and supersedes all prior  discussions,  understandings of agreements between the
parties hereto.

         SECTION  10.22 Waiver of Claims.  As part of the  consideration  to the
Bank  herein,  the  Borrower  waives any claims and all other  defenses of every
nature whatsoever they may have with respect to this Agreement or the Notes.

         IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the parties have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed by their  respective  authorized  officers as of the day and year first
above written.


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                                S & K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.


                                By:_____________________________________________
                                   Robert E. Knowles
                                   Executive Vice President and
                                   Chief Financial Officer

                                    Address:          11100 West Broad Street
                                                      P. 0. Box 31800
                                                      Richmond, Virginia 23294-1800

                                                      Attn:    Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
                                                      Officer

                                    With a copy to:   McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, LLP
                                                      One James Center
                                                      Richmond, Virginia  23219

                                                      Attn:  Robert L. Burrus, Jr.


                                SIGNET BANK (formerly Signet Bank/Virginia)


                                By:_______________________________________
                                   R. Matthew Hall
                                   Senior Vice President


                                    Address:          800 East Main Street
                                                      P. 0. Box 25970
                                                      Richmond, Virginia 23260

                                                      Attn:    Capital Commercial Division
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                                                                       EXHIBIT A

                       AMENDED AND RESTATED REVOLVING NOTE

$14,000,000.00                                                Richmond, Virginia
                                                                     May 31,1997

         FOR VALUE  RECEIVED,  S&K FAMOUS BRANDS,  INC,, a Virginia  corporation
(the  "Borrower'),  hereby  promises  to pay to the  order of  SIGNET  BANK (the
"Bank") at its main office, in Richmond, Virginia, in lawful money of the United
States,   the   principal   sum  of   Fourteen   Million   and  No/100   Dollars
($14,000,000.00) or the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Revolving Loans
made by the Bank to the Borrower  pursuant to the Credit  Agreement  hereinafter
referred to, which ever is less (the "Principal"). The Borrower further promises
to pay interest on the first day of each month from the date hereof,  commencing
July 1, 1997,  and on May 31, 2000 on the amount of the  Principal  from time to
time  outstanding  during the period beginning on the date hereof and continuing
until the Note is paid in full, at the rate or rates  provided for in the Credit
Agreement,  Interest  payable  hereunder  shall be  calculated on the basis of a
365-day year and paid for the actual number of days for which due.

         This Note is the Revolving Note issued  pursuant to the provisions of a
certain  Amended and Restated  Credit  Agreement  dated as of May 31,  1997,  as
amended from time to time,  between the Borrower  and the Bank  (herein,  as the
same may from time to time be amended,  referred to as the "Credit  Agreement"),
and is issued in substitution  of a certain  Revolving Note dated July 15, 1996,
made by the Borrower and payable to the order of the Bank.

         This Note is subject to  prepayment,  in whole or in part, as specified
in the Credit Agreement. In case of Default, as defined in the Credit Agreement,
shall occur and be continuing, in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Credit  Agreement,  and the Borrower hereby agrees to pay all costs and expenses
in connection  therewith,  including reasonable  attorney's fees, as provided in
the Credit Agreement.

         The Borrower and all  guarantors,  endorsers and pledgors hereof hereby
waive presentment, demand, notice of dishonor, protest and all other demands and
notices in connection  with the delivery,  acceptance  and  performance  of this
Note.

         The Bank is  hereby  authorized  to  maintain  records  of the date and
amount of each  Revolving  Loan, the date and amount of any payment of principal
or interest and the principal balance then remaining unpaid hereon. The Borrower
hereby agrees that the amount so evidenced shall,  for all purposes,  constitute
prima facie evidence thereof.

         This Note shall be governed by and  interpreted in accordance  with the
laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

                      [Signature appears on following page]

         IN WITNESS  WHEREOF the  Borrower has caused its  corporate  name to be
signed by its duly  authorized  officer  under seal as of the day and year first
above written.

                                S&K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.


                                By:____________________________[SEAL]
                                Title:__________________________



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                                                                       EXHIBIT B

                                FORM OF TERM NOTE

$                                                             Richmond, Virginia
                                                                  May 31, ______

         FOR VALUE RECEIVED S&K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC., a Virginia corporation (the
"Borrower"),  hereby promises to pay to the order of SIGNET BANK (the "Bank") at
its main office,  in Richmond,  Virginia,  in lawful money of the United States,
the  principal  sum  of  Dollars  __________________________($____________  (the
"Principal"),  in sixteen consecutive equal quarterly  installments of principal
of  _________________________  Dollars (__________) each,  commencing on July 1,
____ and continuing on the first day of each month thereafter (each of such date
being  hereinafter  referred  to as a  "Quarterly  Payment  Date") and one final
payment of principal of  _______________________  Dollars  ($____________ on May
31,  _____ (the "Final  Payment  Date")  when the entire  unpaid  Principal  and
accrued  interest  thereon shall be paid in full.  The Borrower  hereby  further
promises to pay interest  from the date hereof on the amount of  Principal  from
time to time  outstanding  at a rate per annum which at all times shall be equal
to (i) the Payee's  announced prime rate in effect from time to time (the "Prime
Rate"),  such  interest  to be  payable  monthly  on the first day of each month
commencing  July 1, , and on the Final Payment Date.  Interest shall continue to
accrue on this Note after maturity at the rate set forth above and shall then be
payable on demand of the holder of this Note. Any change in the Prime Rate shall
result in a change on the same day in the rate of interest to accrue  thereafter
on the unpaid Principal of this Note at the time  outstanding.  Interest payable
hereunder  shall be  calculated on the basis of a 365- day year and paid for the
actual number of days for which due.

         This Note is issued pursuant to the provisions of a certain Amended and
Restated  Credit  Agreement  dated as of May 31,  1997,  as amended from time to
time, between the Borrower and the Bank (the "Credit Agreement").

         This Note is subject to  prepayment,  in whole or in part, as specified
in the Credit Agreement, In case of Default, as defined in the Credit Agreement,
shall occur and be continuing, in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Credit  Agreement,  and the Borrower hereby agrees to pay all costs and expenses
in connection  therewith,  including reasonable  attorney's fees, as provided in
the Credit Agreement.

         The Borrower and all  guarantors,  endorsers and pledgors hereof hereby
waive presentment, demand, notice of dishonor, protest and all other demands and
notices in connection  with the delivery,  acceptance  and  performance  of this
Note.

         This Note shall be governed by and  interpreted in accordance  with the
laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.


<PAGE>


IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the Borrower has caused its corporate name to be signed by
its  duly  authorized  officer  under  seal as of the day and year  first  above
written.

                                S&K FAMOUS BRANDS, INC.


                                By:____________________________[SEAL]
                                Title:__________________________



<PAGE>


                                                                       EXHIBIT C

                                  MCGUIRE WOODS
                               BATTLE & BOOTHE LLP
                                One James Center
                              901 East Cary Street
                          Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030


                                  May 27, 1997


Signet Bank
800 East Main Street
P.O. Box 2S339
Richmond, Virginia 23260

Ladies and Gentlemen:

         We have  acted as counsel  for S & K Famous  Brands,  Inc.,  a Virginia
corporation  (the  "Company"),  in connection with the execution and delivery of
the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May 31, 1997, (the "Credit
Agreement"),  between the Company and you. At the request of the Company, we are
rendering to you this opinion, delivery of which is required by Section 4 of the
Credit Agreement.

         We have examined originals or copies, which have been identified to our
satisfaction,  of such documents,  instruments,  certificates and opinions as we
have deemed  necessary  in order to render the  opinions  herein  expressed.  We
assumed  that all such  documents,  instruments,  certificates  and opinions are
authentic and that the signatures affixed thereto are genuine.

         We call to your  attention  that,  although  this firm  represents  the
Company on a regular basis,  our knowledge of its affairs is limited to specific
matters as to which we have been  consulted by the  Company.  Matters of a legal
nature  may  exist,  that  would  have  a  bearing  on the  Company's  financial
Condition,  with respect to which we have not been consulted.  We do not purport
to be qualified  as  attorneys in any states other than  Virginia and no opinion
herein is expressed on the basis of the laws of any other state.

         Based   upon  the   foregoing   and   having   regard  for  such  legal
considerations as we deem relevant, we are of the opinion that:

         1. The Company (i) is a  corporation  duly  organized,  existing and in
good standing  under the laws of the  Commonwealth  of Virginia and (ii) has all
requisite  corporate  power to own its  property  and  conduct  its  business as
presently  conducted and described in the Company's  Form 10-K Annual Report for
the fiscal year ended January 25, 1997. The execution,  delivery and performance
of the Credit Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby are within the
scope of the corporate authority of the Company and have been duly authorized by
all necessary corporate proceedings.



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Signet Bank
May 27, 1997
Page 2




         2. The execution, delivery and performance of the Credit Agreement, the
notes to be issued thereunder (the "Notes"),  and the transactions  contemplated
thereby do not  require the  approval  or consent of, or filing or  registration
with any governmental  agency,  stockholders or any other party; except that the
Credit  Agreement  may  need  to be  filed  with  the  Securities  and  Exchange
Commission  as an exhibit to a report of the Company  pursuant to Section 513 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

         3.  To the  best of our  knowledge,  there  are no  actions,  suits  or
proceedings  pending or  threatened  against  the  Company  in which  there is a
reasonable possibility of an adverse outcome which may, in the aggregate, result
in any material  liability on the part of or any material  adverse change in the
business,  properties,  assets or  condition,  financial  or  otherwise,  of the
Company,  or which question the validity of the Credit  Agreement,  the Notes or
any action taken or to be taken in connection with the Credit Agreement.

         4. Issuance of the Notes and  performance  of and  compliance  with the
provisions  of the Credit  Agreement  and the Notes by the Company  will not (i)
violate any provision of the articles of incorporation or by-laws of the Company
or (ii) to the best of our  knowledge,  violate any provision of law or (iii) to
the best of our  knowledge,  conflict with or breach any of the provisions of or
constitute  a default  under,  or result in the  creation or  imposition  of any
encumbrance  upon any property of the Company pursuant to any agreement by which
the  Company  is bound;  it being  expressly  understood  that,  insofar  as the
Company's compliance with financial accounting tests and restrictions  contained
in any such agreement is concerned,  we are relying  entirely upon a certificate
of the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

         5. The Credit  Agreement  constitutes,  and each Note,  when issued and
delivered  pursuant  thereto for value  received,  will  constitute  a valid and
binding  obligation  of  the  Company   enforceable  in  accordance  with  their
respective  terms  (except  as may be  limited  by  any  applicable  bankruptcy,
insolvency,  reorganization,  moratorium  or other laws relating to or affecting
generally the  enforcement of creditor's  rights and except as may be limited by
general  principles  of equity,  regardless  of whether such  enforceability  is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

                                Very truly yours,


                                McGuire,  Woods,  Battle  & Boothe, L.L.P.


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