Macy's to shut down 11 stores

[crescent&pearls]

Does anyone else remember being in the tea room, while models walked through, wearing a special outfit and holding a card so your mother could check out the outfit after lunch?


I loved the fashion shows! My sister and I did one at the Saks near Wilshire once...we must have looked like little pageant girls with our aqua net laquered hair and powder blue crushed velvet dresses! I don't remember cards for the outfits...but I do remember the free valet parking! When I was older I know the Bullock's near my house has a teen board, and it was quite a big deal to be the teen board rep for your high school. We also had a smaller local dept store. When they had their sale in June, all the moms in the neighborhood got up early to wait for the doors to open!

It seems pretty simple to me that in this day and age of Internet shopping, shopping in a brick and mortar store has to be an experience that is relaxing, fun, and somehow more upscale. Nordstrom pretty much gets it right, although I have to go to South Coast to buy dresses or suits. There isn't a lot of selection at the store nearest to me. So now I shop mostly on line!

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by crescent&pearls

Does anyone else remember being in the tea room, while models walked through, wearing a special outfit and holding a card so your mother could check out the outfit after lunch?


I loved the fashion shows! My sister and I did one at the Saks near Wilshire once...we must have looked like little pageant girls with our aqua net laquered hair and powder blue crushed velvet dresses! I don't remember cards for the outfits...but I do remember the free valet parking! When I was older I know the Bullock's near my house has a teen board, and it was quite a big deal to be the teen board rep for your high school. We also had a smaller local dept store. When they had their sale in June, all the moms in the neighborhood got up early to wait for the doors to open!

It seems pretty simple to me that in this day and age of Internet shopping, shopping in a brick and mortar store has to be an experience that is relaxing, fun, and somehow more upscale. Nordstrom pretty much gets it right, although I have to go to South Coast to buy dresses or suits. There isn't a lot of selection at the store nearest to me. So now I shop mostly on line!

I remember Bullock's from when I was very very very little, and there was also Emporium Capwell. Macy's West is amazing, when I. Magnin closed they became this juggernaut knocking out the walls and expanding the Union Square women's store. Being able to get off the street car and go through a turnstile to enter the store was pretty amazing for the downtown San Francisco stores. I always got my santa photos there, and they would have carnivals on the roof.