...my wife misses Loehmann's

I am with your wife. I loved Loehmann's, and still have some amazing outfits from them. Also really mourn the demise of the original Filene's Basement in Boston, though the bastardized chain version of the store I was glad to see go. Those were simply mass market without soul and no great values. As a kid on field trips into Boston I would often take off with friends to shop The Basement, somehow never questioned by the teachers about the large bags of goodies I brought back home on the bus. There was a real art to trying clothes on in public without running into decency issues, (no change rooms, while Loehmann's at least had single sex communal ones.) Worst case scenario I bought the clothes and ran across the street to Jordan Marsh to use their change rooms, running back to return what I didn't want. My current leather pocketbook was bought at the Boston Filene's Basement. Great quality stuff!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

IP