A centerpiece of Vogue's February issue, Growing Up In Style is a series about the connection between fashion and local life in America, past and present. In "Patterns of the Past," writer Susan Choi reflects on the pleasures of her childhood visits to the fabric store in South Bend, Indiana.

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