**Exhibit 10.67**December 11, 2007***By Overnight Mail***Basha Cohen[Home Address]Dear Basha,On behalf of The Talbots, Inc. (including its subsidiaries, “Talbots” or the “Company”) and subjectto review and approval by the Company’s Board of Directors, we are pleased to offer you theposition of Executive Vice President/Chief Merchandising Officer, Talbots Brand in accordance withthe following:***Base Salary, Signing Bonus, Benefits and Perquisites*****•** Your initial salary will be at the rate of $550,000 per annum. Your salary will be paid toyou on a bi-weekly basis. Your first review for a possible salary increase based ondemonstrated job performance will be scheduled for the first quarter of FY 2009 and annuallythereafter.**•** You will receive a $100,000 signing bonus, payable on your employment start date. If youvoluntarily leave Talbots or resign other than for Good Reason (as defined below) or youremployment is terminated by Talbots for Cause (as defined below) in your first year ofemployment, you will be required to reimburse the Company for such $100,000 signing bonus.**•** You will be immediately eligible to participate in all benefit plans generally available atthe time to Talbots senior executives, subject to plan terms and customary eligibilityconditions. Plans are subject to modification or termination by the Company in itsdiscretion. Included in your benefit package is an annual vacation benefit of four weeks.You will also be eligible for all perquisites at a level commensurate with the executive vicepresident level at Talbots, including an auto allowance, reimbursement of financial planningexpenses and a change in control agreement (attached as **Exhibit A**). Perquisites willnot be grossed up for taxes.**•** You will report directly to the President and Chief Executive Officer and your start datewill be December 17, 2007.***Annual Incentive Award Opportunity*****•** You will be eligible for participation in the Company’s incentive plan commencing in FY2008. Your target award opportunity under the Company’s incentive plan will be 50% of yourbase salary. There will be no bonus paid to you for the partial FY 2007. For FY 2008 only,you will receive a minimum bonus equal to $137,500 (which
 

 
Basha CohenDecember 11, 2007Page 2  equals one-half of your target award opportunity of $275,000 for FY 2008). This $137,500 bonuspayment (payable as of the first day of FY 2009) is guaranteed and will be paid to you whetheror not the Company’s performance goals under the Company’s 2008 incentive plan are achieved,unless your employment is terminated by Talbots for Cause (as defined below) prior to the firstday of FY 2009.***Equity Compensation*****•** You will be eligible to receive such equity incentive compensation as may be awarded fromtime to time by the Company’s Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the“Compensation Committee”) pursuant to The Talbots, Inc. 2003 Executive Stock Based IncentivePlan as same may be amended or superseded from time to time. All incentive awards granted toyou will be subject to the terms of the Plan.**•** Contingent upon approval by the Compensation Committee, as a special hiring inducementaward in consideration for your joining the Company, you will be awarded a one-time restrictedstock award for 40,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company, $0.01 par value per share(“Common Stock”) pursuant to and subject to the terms and conditions of a Restricted StockAward Agreement to be executed by the Company and you. Contingent upon approval by theCompensation Committee, this restricted stock award will be effective on the later of December17, 2007 and your employment commencement date and will vest in one-quarter annual incrementsbeginning one year from the effective date of the award.**•** Contingent upon approval by the Compensation Committee, you will also be eligible toreceive a one-time Non-Qualified Stock Option to purchase 15,000 shares of Common Stock uponyour joining the Company. Contingent upon approval by the Compensation Committee, the optionprice will be equal to the closing stock price on the grant date which will be the later ofDecember 17, 2007 and your employment commencement date. The option will vest in one-thirdannual increments beginning one year from the effective date of the award.**•** You understand and agree that the number and timing of any future stock option andrestricted stock awards to you will be subject to Compensation Committee’s sole discretion.***Relocation Package*****•** You will relocate to either the Hingham, Massachusetts area or the New York metropolitanarea not more than two years from your employment start date. The Company will reimburse youfor relocation expenses incurred by you during the period beginning with your employment startdate and ending two years from your employment start date in accordance with the Company’srelocation policy (a copy of which has been previously provided to you), including up to twoyears of temporary
 

 
Basha CohenDecember 11, 2007Page 3  living either in the Hingham, Massachusetts area or the New York metropolitan area and relatedtravel for you and your immediate family (including your domestic partner) at a maximum of$10,000 per month during the period and up to a $15,000 reimbursement in equity loss on thesale of your home in Denver, Colorado once it is sold. If you voluntarily leave Talbots orresign for other than Good Reason or if your employment is terminated by Talbots for Cause (asdefined below) during the one-year period following your relocation, you will be required toreimburse the Company for the total relocation expenses paid to you (excluding all temporaryliving expenses paid by the Company on your behalf).***Severance*****•** It is understood and agreed that either you or Talbots may terminate the employmentrelationship at any time and for any reason upon giving thirty days’ prior written notice.Your eligibility for severance benefits will be pursuant to and subject to the terms andconditions of the Severance Agreement being executed between you and the Company at the sametime and attached hereto as **Exhibit B** (the “Severance Agreement”). Subject to theterms of such Agreement, in the event of a termination of your employment by the Companywithout Cause or by you for “good reason”, you would be entitled to receive 1.5 times yourannual base salary and 18 months benefits continuation, subject to the Company’s receipt of arelease and waiver.***Restrictive Covenants*****•** You agree that you will not, at any time during or following your employment, directly orindirectly, without the express prior written consent of the Company, disclose or use anyConfidential Information of the Company. “Confidential Information” will include allinformation concerning the Company or any parent, subsidiary, affiliate, employee, customer orsupplier or other business associate of the Company or any affiliate (including but notlimited to any trade secrets or other confidential, proprietary or private matters), which hasbeen or is received by you from the Company, or from any parent, subsidiary, affiliate orcustomer or supplier or other business associate of the Company or developed by you during theterm of your employment, and which is not known or generally available to the public.**•** You agree that, for a period of one year after termination or cessation of your employmentfor any reason, you will not to take action or make any statement, written or oral, which isintended to materially disparage the Company or its business.**•** You agree that, for a period of one year after the termination or cessation of youremployment for any reason, you will not directly or indirectly solicit, attempt to hire, orhire any employee of the Company (or any person who may have been employed by the Companyduring the last year of your employment with the Company), or actively assist in such hiringby any other person or business entity or encourage,
 

 
Basha CohenDecember 11, 2007Page 4  induce or attempt to induce any such employee to terminate his or her employment with theCompany. **•** You agree that throughout your employment, and for a period of 18 months after terminationor cessation of employment for any reason, you will not work directly or indirectly in anycapacity or perform any services (including as an officer, director, employee, agent, advisor,in any consulting capacity or as an independent contractor) for any person, partnership,division or corporation in any business in competition with the principal businesses carriedon by the Company in any jurisdiction in which the Company actively conducts business (herein,the “Business Competitors”), including for illustrative purposes only and not limited to, AnnTaylor, Chico’s FAS, Coldwater Creek, Gap Inc. or Liz Claiborne (or any of their affiliatedbrands, subsidiaries or successors) (herein, the “Named Competitors”); provided, however, thatthe 18-month restriction set forth in this paragraph is contingent upon the Company’scompliance with its payment obligations under the terms of the Severance Agreement or anyother or successor severance agreement to which you are then covered. In the event Talbotsterminates your employment for Cause and you are not entitled to severance under the SeveranceAgreement or any other or successor severance agreement to which you are then covered, this18-month restriction shall continue in effect without any payment of severance with respect tothe Named Competitors, but, with respect to any other Business Competitor, only for as long asTalbots elects to continue to pay you (in accordance with its then current payroll practices)at a rate equal to your base salary in effect at the time of termination.**•** You acknowledge that you understand the foregoing restrictive covenants and that theseprovisions are fair, reasonable, and necessary for the protection of the Company’s business.**•** In addition to all other rights and remedies of the Company under this offer letter orotherwise, upon breach of any of the restrictive covenants outlined above, the Company willhave the right to terminate any severance payment and benefits provided pursuant to this offerletter (including all related agreements) or any other or successor severance agreementcovering you and will have the right to recover any severance payment and benefits previouslypaid under this offer letter or any other or successor severance agreement covering you andsuch related agreements.***Definition*****•** “Cause” will have the meaning set forth in the Severance Agreement.**•** “Good Reason” will have the meaning set forth in the Severance Agreement.
 

 
Basha CohenDecember 11, 2007Page 5***Arbitration; Mediation*****•** Any dispute, controversy or claim between the parties arising out of or relating to thisoffer letter or all related agreements referenced herein, will be settled by arbitrationconducted in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in accordance with the Commercial Rules of theAmerican Arbitration Association then in force, provided, however, you acknowledge that in theevent of a violation of the restrictive covenants set forth above, the Company will beentitled to obtain from a state or federal court in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts,temporary, preliminary or permanent injunctive relief (without the necessity of posting anybond or other security), which rights will be in addition to any other rights or remedies towhich it may be entitled. Moreover, nothing in this provision prevents you from filing,cooperating with, or participating in any proceeding before the EEOC or a state FairEmployment Practices Agency relating to discrimination or bias (except that you acknowledgethat you may not recover any monetary benefits in connection with any such proceeding). Thedecision of the arbitrator or arbitrators conducting any such arbitration proceedings will bein writing, will set forth the basis therefore and such arbitrator’s or arbitrators’ decisionor award will be final and binding upon the Company and you. The Company and you will abideby all awards rendered in such arbitration proceedings, and all such awards may be enforcedand executed upon in any court having jurisdiction over the party against whom or whichenforcement of such award is sought. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and you agreethat, prior to submitting a dispute under this offer letter to arbitration, the parties agreeto submit, for a period of sixty (60) days, to voluntary mediation before a jointly selectedneutral third party mediator under the auspices of JAMS, Boston, Massachusetts, ResolutionCenter (or any successor location), pursuant to the procedures of JAMS International MediationRules conducted in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (however, such mediation or obligation tomediate will not suspend or otherwise delay any termination or other action of the Company oraffect the Company’s other rights).***Taxes*****•** All payments will be subject to rules under Internal Revenue Code Section 409A. If anypayment is withheld from you for Section 409A compliance purposes, such payment will bedistributed to you following the expiration of the applicable period, with a payment ofinterest thereon credited at a rate of prime plus 1% (with such prime rate to be determined asof the actual payment date); provided, however, that any payment of interest will be made onlyif and to the extent such payment is consistent with Section 409A and any regulations andother guidance issued thereunder.***Miscellaneous*****•** This offer letter together with all related agreements referenced herein (including theCompany’s relocation policy, collectively, the “Documents”) constitute the entire
 

 
Basha CohenDecember 11, 2007Page 6  understanding between you and the Company and cannot be modified, altered or waived unless itis done in a writing signed by both you and the Company. If there is any conflict between theterms of these Documents and any other document related to your employment, the terms of theseDocuments will control. This offer letter is governed by the laws of The Commonwealth ofMassachusetts (other than its rules for conflicts of laws).**•** By accepting this offer, you represent that you are not under any obligation or covenant toany former employer or any person, firm or corporation, which would prevent, limit or impairin any way the performance by you of your duties as an employee of Talbots.**•** You represent that the information (written or oral) provided to the Company by you or yourrepresentatives in connection with obtaining employment or in connection with your formeremployments, work history, circumstances of leaving your former employments and educationalbackground is true and complete.**•** This offer is effective only through Wednesday, December 12, 2007 and is contingent upon asatisfactory background check. If you wish to accept our offer as outlined above, please signand return this letter to me. The enclosed copy is for your records.     Basha, we are thrilled you are joining the “Talbots Team” and look forward to the contributions youwill make to the overall continued success of the Company!Very truly yours,   /s/ John Fiske, III