"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> I've never heard of a store that would repair a coat. A custom tailor
> shop, perhaps, but I doubt that's where it came from. A store that
> wouldn't allow her to return the coat but would repair it (more than once)
> makes no sense.

It was Sears. Don't know if they would do such a thing now but they did
have a tailor back in the 1970's.