Which of these Midwood businesses is the more inessential and marginal in today's society? Top This Hats, a milliner catering to women, or The Sock Exchange, the outfit it supplanted (without having removed the sign)?
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Yossil
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Believe it or not, both the sock and ladies hat business is alive and well in Midwood, a neighborhood where many dress as if it's still the 1940's, in a bad way.
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Believe it or not, both the sock and ladies hat business is alive and well in Midwood, a neighborhood where many dress as if it's still the 1940's, in a bad way.
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