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...Success was chiefly due to women's clothes imported from France. Franklin Simon, son of a cigarmaker, had learned the clothing business from Stern Brothers. On buying trips abroad he had been impressed by French styles. Until 1914 he was in partnership with a Frenchman named Herman A. Flurscheim, who supplied the store with styles from London, Paris, Vienna. France made Franklin Simon a chevalier of the Legion of Honor for having done more than any other person to put U. S. women into French clothes...
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