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TexasTowelie

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Sun Apr 28, 2013, 05:06 AM Apr 2013

92-year-old still fitting bras


Photo Credit: Alberto Martinez


AUSTIN, TEXAS

The new kid at the Julian Gold women’s apparel store on W. Sixth St. is 92-year-old Earlene Moore, Austin’s best-loved bra fitter.

We first brought you Moore’s story in 2010, when she held a similar position at the now-closed Saks Fifth Avenue store in the Arboretum area. That profile brought an added measure of notoriety to Moore, who was already well-known in her field. The foundation department was packed with so many people after the story ran, she said she thought there’d been an accident. Somebody went for champagne. Customers drove in from the Rio Grande Valley.

Saks closed on Dec. 31 and Moore thought that was the end of her career, but Julian Gold store director Melinda Snell lured her back downtown, where she’d worked many decades ago. She started this month and works five hours a day, three days a week.

“All of Austin knew Saks was closing,” Snell said. “I thought it would be wonderful for Julian Gold to have her celebrity.” Moore’s reaction?

More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/92-year-old-still-fitting-bras/nXY2P/ .
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92-year-old still fitting bras (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2013 OP
A properly fitting bra must be comfortable. Manifestor_of_Light Apr 2013 #1
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