92-year-old still fitting bras
Photo Credit: Alberto Martinez
AUSTIN, TEXAS
The new kid at the Julian Gold womens apparel store on W. Sixth St. is 92-year-old Earlene Moore, Austins best-loved bra fitter.
We first brought you Moores 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 thered 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 shed 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. Moores reaction?
More at
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/92-year-old-still-fitting-bras/nXY2P/ .