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A girl named Carrie : the visionary who created Neiman Marcus and set the standard for fashion / Jerrie Marcus Smith ; with Allison V. Smith.

by Smith, Jerrie Marcus

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Cairn Press, 2021.

381.141092 N414s

Neiman, Carrie Marcus.

Neiman-Marcus -- History.

Businesswomen -- United States -- Biography.

Jewish women -- United States -- Biography.

Department stores -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

9780578969602 (hc)

183 p. : ill. (black and white and color) ; 24 cm.

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"Jerrie Marcus Smith remembers her great aunt Carrie as a humorless woman who always wore black and who, Jerrie says, 'scared me to death.' Only as an adult did Jerrie grasp the impact of Carrie Marcus Neiman. Along with her brother, Herbert Marcus Sr., and her husband A.L. Neiman, Carrie co-founded in 1907 the famed Neiman Marcus department store in Dallas, Texas. Carrie played an integral role in the store's success, despite having three strikes against her: she was a woman, she was Jewish, and (after her husband's illicit relationship with a second-floor saleswoman) she was divorced. Yet with impeccable taste and exemplary manners, she traveled as a buyer to New York in the 1920s (without a man!) and, as Jerrie says, 'was nobody's pushover.' Carrie was self-taught and never attended college. Her only pregnancy ended in miscarriage; she worked at Neiman Marcus until her death at age 66. Yet through memories shared by her father, the late Neiman Marcus legend Stanley Marcus, as well as through spellbinding interviews with long retired salespeople, Jerrie has felt inextricably tied to Carrie. Each recollection of Aunt Carrie, each remembrance, each detail melted away Jerrie's childhood fear of the stern woman in black, leaving in its place a colorful portrait of a person to be admired, to be loved and -- perhaps most of all -- to be shared."--Publisher.

Smith, Allison V.

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