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MAISON BLANCHE

foundations. Women of a certain size still rue the day the store closed and their super-sized brassieres were gone, just like that. About the same time that Maison Blanche opened, Joseph Haspel Sr. was casting about for ideas for keeping New Orleans men cool – but stylish – in the blistering summer heat. His answer? Seersucker, the fabric imported from India by the British. Today, Haspel makes seersucker suits in seven shades that rival the rainbow hues of snowball syrup bottles lined up on a shelf at Plum Street or Hansen's.

Adler's remains the place for fine jewelry on Canal Street. The shop opened in 1898 on Royal Street in the French Quarter but moved to Canal as business boomed. The founder's grandson, Coleman Adler II, keeps it a family business even today. The same holds true for Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry, founded by Chad Berg's father in 1978 in Baton Rouge. Could the Bergs have foreseen that their family business would morph into a jewelry empire that stretches from New Mexico to Mississippi?

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ADORE • SPRING 2019