LOL, We lived less than a block away in an apt. on the 39th floor on Devonshire Street in the Financial District for 18 very long months. I was in Filene's every week at a minimum. Foreign visitors would just undress in the aisles and try things on. Nothing like moving around a rack of clothes and coming face to face (or whatever) with a naked person. If I ever go back to Boston that might be the first place I go. The old store downtown is owned by the employees - most of whom have been there forever - there is no connection to the Filene's in the burbs.
Lindsey, I think we have been following each other over the years, we also lived on the Wicomico River on the Eastern Shore of MD.