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Brehmer, also nicknamed Miss Kitty on her Web site at www.catspajamas.com, gets lots of calls to buy clothing from estates and has traveled across the country to buy clothing, shoes, boots and accessories.

“This area is very rich since people didn’t move a lot and stored things. I recently bought a coverlet from 1865 that they were going to throw away. I have to wash and clean it. I enjoy taking a ratty and stained dress and seeing it like new again,” she said.

“My biggest high is digging through attics and closets and finding maybe a hat that nobody has worn for 100 years,” she said.

Buying vintage clothing is a great way to recycle clothing. “You can mix and match a vintage jacket with new jeans or a vintage pencil skirt with a new sweater,” she said. “It’s not something that everyone’s wearing where you see yourself coming and going,” she said.

Her daughter-in-law, Stephanie Hauze, who manages the Bloomsburg shop, prefers to wear ’50s clothes. A Pittsburgh Art Institute special effects makeup graduate who worked in a Pittsburgh costume shop, she said many of her customers are buying boots, coats and party outfits.

The Danville shop sells clothes for men and women plus shoes, boots and jewelry. Terry Bortz manages the Danville store, open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. The Bloomsburg shop is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and noon to 7 p.m.

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