| Phoebe Andrews, left, and Jeremy Clos clean up dressing rooms at Raleigh Creative Costumes on the store's last business day.
The 32-year-old theater costume business on Hillsborough Street closed July 30. Andrews, 18, who had worked at the store since she was 14, first as a volunteer and then as a part-time worker, described herself as 'really bummed out.' Her father worked for N.C. State's University Theatre when she was a child, Andrews said, and 'I grew up in the back of Thompson Theater.'
Clos, another longtime employee of the store, runs The Tudor Shoppe, which specializes in Renaissance costumes. |