Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from the line of Neely Tamminga with Piper Jaffray.
Neely Tamminga - Piper Jaffray & Co
Great, good morning. And good luck to you guys here in the second quarter. But just want to get a sense here, on the comp guidance that you have given for Q2, I mean obviously, I think you guys are doing a good job of trying to be conservative out there, especially in this environment. But if your underlying sportswear comp is running double-digits, and you have some pretty decent visibility that continues to be the case, are you being a little too conservative on what Q2 comp could be? And I will just have a follow-up after that.
Tom Reinckens
Neely, that's a good question. And I would like to walk everyone through it. And the answer could be yes. But I don't want to say anything more than what we originally expected. But let me walk you through the impact that we are seeing in the business now. If you were to visualize a U-curve, and you look at our comps, starting off in January, up 7, up 4 in the month of February, and flat in March, and then down to 1% in April. And then you look at the other side of the "U" is what we are looking at in May and June right now, and basically, we are making those decisions based upon the strength of the sportswear.
The long dress portion, the special occasion dress portion was down significantly, high double-digits. We managed the inventory. But it still was a huge percentage of our business in the months of March and April. And I think you know that from all of the years following the business.
Just to give you an idea, I just took a look quickly at the percentage of our contribution of sportswear to the months of April, May, and June. And in the months of April, this is last year I am illustrating for you -- last year; it was roughly 40% of our business in April was driven by our sportswear assortment. The remaining 60% was short dresses. The majority of it was really in the long dress category, the balance, along with accessories. As it shifted from that 40% last year in April, in May, sportswear became 50%. Slightly higher, 52% of our total mix in sales for the month of May. And in June, it became 60%, as I mentioned earlier in the call.
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