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Article: Custom clothes shop thrives in Batavia.(Business)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2004
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Byline: Heather Cunningham
If you're driving down Main Street on the west side of Batavia, you'll see houses and even hints of a bit of industry. What you might not expect to see is a clothing shop, smack dab in the middle of it all.
Arlee M. Fashions has survived and thrived at 715 Main St. for 15 years, owned for the last five by Amy Mueller.
"I live about two blocks away and came in to shop and never left," said Mueller. Having worked in the fashion and apparel industry before the birth of her children, she decided to plunge back into the workplace at Arlee M. The shop is organized to meet the needs of Mueller's thirty-something peers all ...