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Francesca's Collections, near Von Maur, is a chain of stores for mainly teenage girly-type girls: with bundles of frilly, flirty, colorful clothing and accessories spilling over its tables and racks.

Mix Laundry, another clothing store at the very end of the spur near Eddie Bauer, is a little harder to categorize. It's not a chain, but a newly invented store owed by LaTache Dabney, who has owned and worked in clothing stores around Detroit. Her brother Cordairro says she's in the process of dropping the men's clothing and focusing on women of all ages. The women's clothing could, like Francesca's, be described as flirty and colorful, with a little more of a hip-hop, urban vibe.

Best Buy Mobile, 761-5872.

Mix Laundry, 418-2567.

Francesca's Collections, 332-3886.