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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ads: Button It!

Colonel Mustard… in the Library… with a Button Hook. Wait. What’s a button hook? Long before the invention of spandex and Velcro, our ancestors wore a number of button-up garments, such as shoes, dresses and gloves....

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Posted in: Then & Now Then and Now: The Star Store and Indiana Government Center South, 360-70 West Washington Street

L. S. Ayres & Company, Wiliam H. Block, and H. P. Wasson are the most beloved and remembered Indianapolis department stores, but many smaller stores catered to the middle class. One of them was the...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Indianapolis Brands, Winter Suits

Rarely does a gal receive more compliments than when wearing a vintage suit, yet so many are timid about trying them out. After looking at the above vintage adverts for suits of yesteryear,...

L. S. Ayres & Company, Wiliam H. Block, and H. P. Wasson are the most beloved and remembered Indianapolis department stores, but many smaller stores catered to the middle class. One of them was the...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: Miracle on Washington Street

Long before Ralphie told a bearded man in a red suit about his secret desire to own a Red Ryder BB Gun, American children have been sharing their Christmas lists with department store Santas. The...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: That Ayres Look

From collection of Thomas Brown, one of our longtime faithful readers, comes this L.S. Ayres advertisement. This is the very first “That Ayres Look” advertisement that ran in Vogue, March 15, 1936. The featured suit,...

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