"It would be the only wedding dress shop in the Zivinice region, " she says.
There was nothing to do but work in her mother's dress shop, sleep around in San Francisco, get pregnant, have an abortion.
She was apprenticed to a London dressmaker, which was how she came to Buckingham Palace, and later got a job in a Dublin dress shop.
In fact, she got to name my mother, Dolores, because by the time my mother came along my immigrant grandparents, Sam and Molly, were running a dress shop and tailoring business in Washington Heights, Manhattan, near or on Dyckman Street.
Travolta's pretty wonderful as Edna down-to-earth, vulnerable, and every bit the dancer he was back in his Saturday Night Fever days, as you discover when Tracy and Edna go out for a makeover at their favorite dress shop, Mr. Pinky's Hefty Hideaway.
The neighborhood men either were in business for themselves the owners of the local candy store, grocery store, jewelry store, dress shop, furniture shop, service station, and delicatessen, or the proprietors of tiny industrial job shops over by the Newark-Irvington line, or self-employed plumbers, electricians, housepainters, and boilermen or were foot-soldier salesmen like my father, out every day in the city streets and in people's houses, peddling their wares on commission.
In the northeastern Bosnian village of Zivinice, the walls of Edina Bukvic's wedding dress rental shop are festooned with frilly white lace and shiny satin gowns.
In the dress-making department and shop, new cloth-ing (using also Tanzanian material) is produced and sold, and second-hand clothing is mended and refashioned.
After work you go to a shop to buy a new dress for your daughter.
The story goes that a titled woman called at the shop looking for a black dress.
Miss Manning, a shop assistant, had been to a 70s fancy dress party and a nightclub with her boyfriend Barri White.
Shop assistant Miss Manning had been to a fancy dress party and a nightclub with Mr White when she walked off alone in the early hours of 10 December.
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The multicoloured balls in bubble-gum machines could be picked up in a girl's dress, or the red of a stiletto shoe matched with the frame of a shop window.
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