TARRANT APPAREL GROUP
WAIVER AGREEMENT DATED NOVEMBER 2001
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 <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Exhibit 10.90.5 </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><U>GMAC</U> </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Commercial </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Credit LLC </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV STYLE="margin-left:13px; text-indent:-13px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">November 2001 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV STYLE="margin-left:13px; text-indent:-13px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Tarrant Apparel Group </FONT></DIV> <DIV STYLE="margin-left:13px; text-indent:-13px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Tag Mex, Inc. </FONT></DIV> <DIV STYLE="margin-left:13px; text-indent:-13px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Fashion Resource (TCL), Inc. </FONT></DIV> <DIV STYLE="margin-left:13px; text-indent:-13px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">3151 East Washington Blvd. </FONT></DIV> <DIV
STYLE="margin-left:13px; text-indent:-13px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Los Angeles, CA 90023 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV STYLE="margin-left:13px; text-indent:-13px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">Ladies/Gentlemen: </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Reference is made to the Revolving Credit, Factoring and Security Agreement between us dated as of January 21, 2000 (the
&#147;Agreement&#148;). All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have such meaning as are ascribed to them under the Agreement. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV STYLE="text-indent:27px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You have advised us that you are in violation of certain provisions set forth in Section 7.5 of the Agreement in that you did not achieve the required levels of Tangible Net Worth as set forth in Section 7.5(a), meet
the necessary Fixed Charged Coverage Ratio required under Section 7.5 (b), meet the necessary Interest Coverage Ratio required in Section 7.5 (c) nor meet the Total Leverage Ratio requirement set forth in Section 7.5(d) of the Agreement, and that
you anticipate that you will continue to be in violation of these financial covenants through the fiscal period ending December 31, 2001. Your failure to achieve the required levels of financial performance for the sections referred to in the
preceding section would constitute an Event of Default under the Agreement. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV STYLE="text-indent:27px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This letter shall serve to confirm that we hereby
waive your failure to achieve the financial performance requirements of Sections 7.5 (a), (b), (c) and (d), for your fiscal periods through December 31, 2001 as an Event of Default, it being understood that such waiver is only with respect to the
sections described above and is only applicable for such specific time period and should not be construed as a waiver of the requirements of any other section of the Agreement nor of those specific sections for any subsequent time period.
</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV STYLE="text-indent:27px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In part consideration of providing the waiver set forth above, you agree to pay us a covenant waiver fee of $25,000.00, which
fee shall be an addition to any other fees, charges or interest payable by you to us under the Agreement, and payment of which fee may be effectuated by our charging your loan account with us. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV STYLE="text-indent:27px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As you know, as an accommodation to you, we provided you with a temporary discretionary overadvance in excess of the lending formulas under the Agreement and in excess of the
Overadvance Limit of up to $10,000,000 from the 15</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP>th</SUP></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><SUP></SUP> </FONT></DIV> <P></P>



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 <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">day of each month through the 5</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP>th</SUP></FONT><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><SUP></SUP> Business Day of the following month (the &#147;Monthly Overadvance&#148;) at which time the outstanding amount of this temporary overadvance was to be paid in full each month. You have
failed to pay the Monthly Overadvance, as you had agreed to, during the past three months, and there is presently outstanding a principal amount of $10,000,000 under the Monthly Overadvance. While we will not deem your previous failure to pay the
Monthly Overadvance as an Event of Default under the Agreement, by this letter you hereby acknowledge that you are on notice and are in agreement, that the total $10,000,000 outstanding under the Monthly Overadvance shall be paid in full by you by
no later than the 5</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP>th</SUP></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><SUP></SUP> Business Day of February 2002 and that your failure to fully pay the Monthly Overadvance by that
date shall be an Event of Default under the Agreement. Thereafter the Monthly Overadvance facility shall be discontinued and shall no longer be made available to you, unless we in our sole and absolute discretion agree in writing to restructure the
credit facility with you, and as part of such restructuring this Monthly Overadvance is dealt with in a different manner, it being understood that there is no obligation or representation to you on our part to do so. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV STYLE="text-indent:27px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If foregoing correctly sets forth the agreement between us, please execute a copy of this letter in the space provided below and return the fully
executed copy to our offices. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV ALIGN="right">
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