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<P align="center" style="font-size: 14pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>

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<P align="center" style="font-size: 18pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt">UNDER THE</DIV>


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<P align="center" style="font-size: 24pt"><B>V.F. CORPORATION</B>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>PENNSYLVANIA</B><BR>
(State or Other Jurisdiction<BR>
of Incorporation or Organization)
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>23-1180120</B><BR>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>105 Corporate Center Blvd.<BR>
Greensboro, North Carolina 27408</B><BR>
(Address of Registrant&#146;s Principal Executive Offices)



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>1996 Stock Compensation Plan</B><BR>
(Full Title of the Plan)



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Candace S. Cummings, Esq.<BR>
Vice President &#151; Administration, General Counsel and Secretary<BR>
V.F. Corporation<BR>
P.O. Box 21488<BR>
Greensboro, North Carolina 27420</B><BR>
(Name and address of agent for service)



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>(336)&nbsp;547-6000</B><BR>
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)



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                    <TD style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:10px; text-indent:-10px">Common Stock
(no par value;
stated capital
$1.00 per share)
(1)</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">49.67</TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">397,360,000</TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$</TD>
    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">50,345.51</TD>
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">(1)&nbsp;In addition, this registration statement registers an indeterminate number
of rights (the &#147;Rights&#148;) to purchase Series&nbsp;A Participating Cumulative
Preferred Stock pursuant to the terms of a certain Rights Agreement between the
Company and First Chicago Trust Company of New York, as Rights Agent, as
amended. No separate consideration will be received for the Rights, which
initially will trade together with the Common Stock.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">(2)&nbsp;In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of: (a)&nbsp;interests
to be offered or sold pursuant to the 1996 Stock Compensation Plan, as amended
and restated February&nbsp;10, 2004 (the &#147;Plan&#148;), and (b)&nbsp;additional shares which
may be necessary to adjust the number of shares reserved for issuance pursuant
to the Plan for any future stock split, stock dividend or similar adjustment of
the outstanding Common Stock of the registrant.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">(3)&nbsp;Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(c) solely for the purpose of calculating the
registration fee based on the average of the high and low sales prices of
shares of Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange consolidated reporting
system on August&nbsp;20, 2004.



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">Explanatory Note



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement
is being filed in order to register additional shares of Common Stock, no par
value, stated capital $1.00 per share, of V.F. Corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;),
with respect to a currently effective Registration Statement on Form S-8 of the
Company relating to the Company&#146;s 1996 Stock Compensation Plan.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The contents of Registration Statement on Form S-8 as filed on August&nbsp;4,
1997, Registration No.&nbsp;333-32789, as amended, the contents of Registration
Statement on Form S-8 as filed on July&nbsp;30, 1999, Registration No.&nbsp;333-84193, as
amended, and the contents of Registration Statement on Form S-8 as filed on
August&nbsp;14, 2001, Registration No.&nbsp;333-67502, as amended, are incorporated by
reference into this Registration Statement.


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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#001">Item 8. Exhibits.</A></TD></TR>
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amended and restated February&nbsp;10, 2004 (Exhibit&nbsp;A
to the Company&#146;s 2004 proxy statement filed with
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;9. Undertakings.</B>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1)&nbsp;To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(i)&nbsp;To include any prospectus required by Section&nbsp;10(a)(3) of the
Securities Act of 1933;


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(ii)&nbsp;To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities
offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that
which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the
estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus
filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
changes in volume and price represent no more than 20&nbsp;percent change in the
maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the &#147;Calculation of Registration
Fee&#148; table in the effective registration statement; and


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(iii)&nbsp;To include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any
material change to such information in the registration statement;


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>provided, however</I>, that paragraphs (1) (i)&nbsp;and (1) (ii)&nbsp;above do not apply
if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or<br>
Form&nbsp; F-3, and the
information required to be included


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic
reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to
Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
incorporated by reference in the registration statement.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2)&nbsp;That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
<I>bona fide </I>offering thereof.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(3)&nbsp;To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any
of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
plan&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall
be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial <I>bona fide </I>offering thereof.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the city of Greensboro, state of North Carolina on this 25th day
of August, 2004.

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    <TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Mackey J. McDonald</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Mackey J. McDonald</TD>
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Mackey J. McDonald<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
Mackey J. McDonald</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Chairman of the Board, President<BR>
and Chief Executive Officer
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August 25, 2004</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Robert K. Shearer<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
Robert K. Shearer</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Vice President - Finance and<BR>
Global Processes, Chief Financial<BR>
Officer, and Chief Accounting<BR>
Officer
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August 25, 2004</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">Edward E. Crutchfield*</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
George Fellows*
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Mackey J. McDonald*</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">Juan Ernesto de Bedout*</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Daniel R. Hesse*
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Clarence Otis, Jr.*</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">Ursula F. Fairbairn*</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Robert J. Hurst*
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">M. Rust Sharp*</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">Barbara S. Feigin*</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
W. Alan McCollough*
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Raymond G. Viault*</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">*By:
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Candace S. Cummings</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Candace S. Cummings,</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Attorney-In-Fact</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion of Pepper Hamilton LLP.</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.</TD>
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
V.F. CORPORATION
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
PENNSYLVANIA
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation or Organization)
23-1180120
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
105 Corporate Center Blvd.
Greensboro, North Carolina 27408
(Address of Registrant's Principal Executive Offices)
1996 Stock Compensation Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Candace S. Cummings, Esq.
Vice President — Administration, General Counsel and Secretary
V.F. Corporation
P.O. Box 21488
Greensboro, North Carolina 27420
(Name and address of agent for service)
(336) 547-6000
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Each Class
Proposed Maximum
Proposed Maximum
of Securities To Be
Amount To Be
Offering Price Per
Aggregate Offering
Amount of
Registered
Registered (2)
Share (3)
Price (3)
Registration Fee
Common Stock
(no par value;
stated capital
$1.00 per share)
(1)
8,000,000
$
49.67
$
397,360,000
$
50,345.51
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(1) In addition, this registration statement registers an indeterminate number
of rights (the "Rights") to purchase Series A Participating Cumulative
Preferred Stock pursuant to the terms of a certain Rights Agreement between the
Company and First Chicago Trust Company of New York, as Rights Agent, as
amended. No separate consideration will be received for the Rights, which
initially will trade together with the Common Stock.
(2) In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of: (a) interests
to be offered or sold pursuant to the 1996 Stock Compensation Plan, as amended
and restated February 10, 2004 (the "Plan"), and (b) additional shares which
may be necessary to adjust the number of shares reserved for issuance pursuant
to the Plan for any future stock split, stock dividend or similar adjustment of
the outstanding Common Stock of the registrant.
(3) Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(c) solely for the purpose of calculating the
registration fee based on the average of the high and low sales prices of
shares of Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange consolidated reporting
system on August 20, 2004.
Explanatory Note
Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement
is being filed in order to register additional shares of Common Stock, no par
value, stated capital $1.00 per share, of V.F. Corporation (the "Company"),
with respect to a currently effective Registration Statement on Form S-8 of the
Company relating to the Company's 1996 Stock Compensation Plan.
The contents of Registration Statement on Form S-8 as filed on August 4,
1997, Registration No. 333-32789, as amended, the contents of Registration
Statement on Form S-8 as filed on July 30, 1999, Registration No. 333-84193, as
amended, and the contents of Registration Statement on Form S-8 as filed on
August 14, 2001, Registration No. 333-67502, as amended, are incorporated by
reference into this Registration Statement.
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PART II INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 8. Exhibits.
Item 9. Undertakings.
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
OPINION OF PEPPER HAMILTON LLP
CONSENT OF PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP
POWER OF ATTORNEY
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 8. Exhibits.
Exhibit No.
Description
*4.1
1996 Stock Compensation Plan, as
amended and restated February 10, 2004 (Exhibit A
to the Company's 2004 proxy statement filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission on March
24, 2004).
5.1
Opinion of Pepper Hamilton LLP.
23.1
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP.
23.2
Consent of Pepper Hamilton LLP
(included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power of Attorney.
*
Incorporated by reference.
Item 9. Undertakings.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
Securities Act of 1933;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities
offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that
which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the
estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus
filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the
maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration
Fee" table in the effective registration statement; and
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any
material change to such information in the registration statement;
provided, however
, that paragraphs (1) (i) and (1) (ii) above do not apply
if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or
Form  F-3, and the
information required to be included
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in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic
reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any
of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall
be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the city of Greensboro, state of North Carolina on this 25th day
of August, 2004.
V.F. CORPORATION
By:
/s/ Mackey J. McDonald
Mackey J. McDonald
Chairman of the Board, President and
Chief Executive Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
SIGNATURE
TITLE
DATE
/s/ Mackey J. McDonald
Mackey J. McDonald
Chairman of the Board, President
and Chief Executive Officer
August 25, 2004
/s/ Robert K. Shearer
Robert K. Shearer
Vice President - Finance and
Global Processes, Chief Financial
Officer, and Chief Accounting
Officer
August 25, 2004
DIRECTORS
Edward E. Crutchfield*
George Fellows*
Mackey J. McDonald*
Juan Ernesto de Bedout*
Daniel R. Hesse*
Clarence Otis, Jr.*
Ursula F. Fairbairn*
Robert J. Hurst*
M. Rust Sharp*
Barbara S. Feigin*
W. Alan McCollough*
Raymond G. Viault*
Date: August 25, 2004
*By:
/s/ Candace S. Cummings
Candace S. Cummings,
Attorney-In-Fact
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Document
5.1
Opinion of Pepper Hamilton LLP.
23.1
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
24.1
Power of Attorney.
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