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"A Kansas City-area woman went from being a history teacher at Saint Teresa's Academy to the owner of a new boutique that helps her cash in on her passion for the past.Brookside Betty's features dresses of decades past and d\u00E9cor that fills the walls with nostalgia.\"If you look around the room, you can see that we have album covers from old movies, giving that 1940s-1950s vibe,\" said owner Jacqui Brewer. \"A little bit of 'Mad Men' too, a little bit into the '60s.\"Brewer said that while she taught history to high school students, she always hung on to her other love of fashion. She said that she even used her students as a fashion focus group, which was a lesson in itself.\"I have to say -- the girls nowadays, since I have been teaching at a high school, they're loving the retro fashions,\" she said. \"That said, they think the '80s and '90s is super-retro.\"From dresses to accessories, Brewer said the boutique has been a dream of hers -- both a way to combine her passions and to bring something new to Brookside.\"We offer sizes from extra-small to 3X, which I think is good because we have a lot of great dress shops in town, but sometimes having a 3X is a novelty,\" she said. \"And I think every woman should be able to go into a store and find a dress that looks great on them.\"Brewer said the boutique just opened and she's been getting great feedback, including requests from teenage customers to make the dresses shorter. She said that may be a sign of the times."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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