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Box 1: Typescript : "Nobody's Fault but My Own, Unlimited" by Dora Sarin
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- ca. 1950s to 1960s (Creation)
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"Typed manuscript, 6 leaves (11x8 inches)... In Dora Sarin's memoir of her Post-World War II New York fashion business, Things Unlimited, she declares that it "was the first public [fashion] botique in the U.S. set up as a thing in itself not in conjunction witha Maison de Couture as in Paris..." (pp[3-4]). In 1945 Sarin opened her fashion botique in Greenwich Village near Greenwich Avenue and Sixth Avenue in New York City. At that time, the neighborhood was decidely not chic and trendy: Since Things Unlimited was across from the controverial Womens [sic] House of Detention my door was the waiting room for relatives, friends, and pimps who arrived to reassure their girls that all was being doen to release them... Then came the drunks and the panhandlers. From the Bowery, to Bleecher Street flophouses they lurched through Washington Square Park, down through the street shops crossing Sixth Avenue ro Greenwich Avenue and right into my shop which was right at the headstart of the street. (p[2])..." -Ian Brabner Bookseller