September 24, 2009 at 7:00 am by Luanne Bradley
Sharing Family Garb Is Good Savings (if You Can Stand the Loan)
My lovely, celebrity-style dressing room is a spare bedroom I stole in the house, a spare that once housed a maple crib, green nursing glider and armoire of precious, spit-up stained Baby Gap dresses on mini-hangers.
Today, it’s my own little retail Mecca (organic, of course). But I do allow my daughters to visit and check out the blouses and shoe rack, and yes, even borrow on occasion. That sort of thing was taboo when I was growing up. Moms were moms. Friends were the ones loaning stuff.
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Ever the agent of controversy, 
