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                                    Exhibit 4

                  FIRST AMENDMENT TO REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT

This First Amendment to Revolving Credit Agreement (this "Amendment") is entered
into at Columbus, Ohio, by and between The Huntington National Bank, as lender
(the "Bank"), and R. G. Barry Corporation, as borrower (the "Borrower"), as of
the 31st day of March, 2003, in order to amend the Revolving Credit Agreement
entered into by and among the Bank and the Borrower as of the 27th day of
December, 2002 (the "Credit Agreement").

      Whereas, on or about December 27, 2002, the parties to this Amendment
entered into the Credit Agreement, pursuant to which the Borrower delivered to
the Bank a Revolving Credit Note and a Security Agreement, and the parties
entered into other agreements and delivered other documents in connection
therewith (collectively, the "Loan Documents"); and

      Whereas, the parties to this Amendment desire to amend one of the
provisions of the Credit Agreement;

Now, therefor, in consideration of the foregoing premises, the covenants
contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the parties hereto
agree as follows:

         1. Section 1.2 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended to recite
in its entirety as follows:

                  1.2 Commitment Limitations. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
                  during the following periods in each year occurring during the
                  term of this Agreement, the Commitment of the Bank shall be in
                  an amount equal to the lesser of the following amounts or the
                  amount to which the Commitment has been reduced pursuant to
                  Section 4.6 hereof.

                           Period                               Commitment
                           ------                               ----------
                           From 1/1 though 1/31                 $3,000,000
                           From 2/1 through 3/31                $12,000,000
                           From 4/1 through 10/31               $32,000,000
                           From 11/1 through 12/31              $27,000,000

         2. The Borrower represents and warrants that no Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, nor will any occur immediately after the execution
and delivery of this Amendment by the performance or observance of any provision
hereof.

         3. Each reference to the Credit Agreement, whether by use of the phrase
"Credit Agreement," "Agreement," the prefix "herein" or any other term, and
whether contained in the Credit Agreement itself, in this Amendment, in any
document executed concurrently herewith or in any loan documents executed
hereafter, shall be construed as a reference to the Credit Agreement as amended
by this Amendment.

         4. Except as previously amended and as modified herein, the Credit
Agreement, the Revolving Credit Note, the Security Agreement and all other Loan
Documents shall remain as written originally and in full force and effect in all
respects, and nothing herein shall affect, modify, limit or impair any of the
rights and powers which the Banks may have thereunder.

         5. The Borrower agrees to perform and observe all the covenants,
agreements, stipulations and conditions to be performed on its part under the
Credit Agreement (as amended by this Amendment), the Revolving Credit Note, the
Security Agreement, and all other Loan Documents.

         6. The Borrower hereby represents and warrants to the Bank that (a) the
Borrower has legal power and authority to execute and deliver the within
Amendment; (b) the respective officer executing the within Amendment on behalf
of the Borrower has been duly authorized to execute and deliver the same and
bind the Borrower with respect to the provisions provided for herein; (c) the
execution by the Borrower


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and the performance and observance by the Borrower of the provisions hereof do
not violate or conflict with the articles of incorporation, regulations or
by-laws of the Borrower or any law applicable to the Borrower or result in the
breach of any provision of or constitute a default under any agreement,
instrument or document binding upon or enforceable against the Borrower; and (d)
this Amendment and the Loan Documents executed and delivered in connection
herewith constitute valid and legally binding obligations upon the Borrower,
subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar
laws affecting creditors' rights generally, to general equitable principles and
to applicable doctrines of commercial reasonableness.

         7. This Amendment shall become effective only upon its execution by the
Borrower and the Bank. Execution of this Amendment by the parties hereto may be
in any number of counterparts, but all of such counterparts when taken together
shall constitute one and the same document.

         8. The capitalized terms used herein shall have the same meanings as
the capitalized terms used in the Credit Agreement.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower and the Bank have hereunto set their hands
as of the 31st day of March, 2003.

ATTEST:                     R. G. BARRY CORPORATION


                            By:  /s/ Daniel D. Viren
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                                 Daniel D. Viren, Senior Vice President-Finance


                            THE HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK


                            By:  /s/ Bud Ward, Senior Vice President
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                                 Bud Ward, Senior Vice President





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