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Article: Style It's Good-Bye, Dolly Kay
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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The woman who brought potpourri to Washington was calling it
quits.
Word spread quickly among alarmed cognoscenti this week that Dolly
Kay was closing her shop after 18 years. Some were calling it the
final blow to Washington's carriage trade, where the carriages of
choice are mostly Mercedeses, Jaguars and BMWs. There was also the
occasional limo that idled in front of the tiny shop of luxuries
tucked incongruously between the Lord & Taylor parking lot and a
Metrobus garage in Friendship Heights.
"Everything has changed," says Kay, who publicly announced she
would be closing in a newspaper ad Monday addressed to "my dear
friends."
"People aren't acquiring now," Kay says. "They are scared ...