Profile of Success: Fun in the Sun

This month, Margaret Moraskie, vice president of e-commerce for women’s apparel cataloger Boston Proper, discusses her life in the catalog, retail and online trades.

Catalog Success: How did you get started in the business?

Margaret Moraskie: I started in retail with Federated Department Stores [parent company of Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s] out of college in its executive training program. I worked in the stores, then was an assistant buyer for Stern’s in the Northeast. I then moved to Florida and was hired [by Boston Proper] to be an assistant buyer for Mark, Fore & Strike Men’s at the retail level. That was about 14 years ago, and I moved to the catalog side not long thereafter. I was an assistant buyer for ladies sportswear before moving into inventory control, and I joined the e-commerce team in ’99. I’ve had a lot of different roles here.