In 1980, Donald J. Trump made the front page of The New York Times after assaulting a pair of scantily clad women at a Fifth Avenue department store.
Department stores, though erected mostly by men, have always been feminine domains.
Julie Satow has written a group biography of the department-store doyennes who ran the show and these places in their heyday really were a form of theater for the male founders and owners whose names adorned the facades.
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