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#1 2008-04-10 12:03:04
- Marc Grayson
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Bonwit Teller
One of the legendary high-end New York department stores, long gone, a casualty of the changing landscape...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E1DB1F39F930A15757C0A967948260
Last edited by Marc Grayson (2008-04-10 12:05:29)
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#2 2008-04-10 12:06:46
- Marc Grayson
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Re: Bonwit Teller
http://www.vintagefashionguild.org/component/option,com_alphacontent/section,6/cat,59/task,view/id,99/Itemid,100/
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#3 2008-04-10 13:02:46
- r. rafael
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Re: Bonwit Teller
Bonwit Teller features in the 1978 sequel to "Love Story" entitled "Oliver's Story." For a good social history of Bonwit Teller read "Crossing Fifth Avenue" by Ira Neimark ( former CEO of Bergdorf Goodman). The book is available at Bergdorf's on the second or third floor.
I remember Bonwit Teller in Scarsdale/Eastchester. As I remember, the store was the equal of Saks.
#4 2008-04-10 16:42:12
- tom22
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Re: Bonwit Teller
I remember accompanying my mother on a shopping expedition once in the late 1970s or possible early 80s. It was all small spaces. The only vivid memory is the coat department and a salesman explaining that, I think, beaver fur had made a comeback. All the women nodded. Thank god I was the only boy/man present.