Maxine Rizik Tanous, longtime Washington, D.C. retailer, has died

Maxine Rizik Tanous, A Washington, D.C. speciality store deanery WHO help has dress First of all Ladies, cupboard secretaries, Supreme Court judges And diplomats, deceased Dec. 13 has her House In Bethesda, Md.

Tanous, 95, deceased of natural causes surrounded by her family, according to has her son-in-law Paul Jacobson. Services will be detained Wednesday has 3 p.m. has St. Bartholomew Catholic Church In Bethesda, And Tanous will be buried next to her late husband, Rock, has Arlington National Graveyard In Arlington, Virginia.

Born And raised In THE Peripheral, She devoted six days A week And almost 70 years of her life has Rizik Brothers, A top of the line shop that prosperous THANKS has more official dress codes And generations of Washington initiated In research of bright looks For day And evening.

THE fifth of Seven children born has Ayoub And Soraya Rizik, She grown up up on Woodland To drive close THE National Cathedral. Her father And uncle Joseph, WHO begin Rizik Brothers. In 1908, each built rock Houses A little doors down Since A another. THE brothers had immigrant has THE WE. Since Tire, Lebanon, And begin out import lace, A research merchandise has that time In the United States.

Initially uncertain about how they could TO DO their path In America, family traditions has he that someone suggested that THE brothers build on their heritage of be Phoenicians, WHO were great traders, And to start import goods And clothes has Washington, Jacobson said. Contrary to THE more culturally rich And commercialized New York City, THE the nation capital was SO mostly A government city. THE arrival of Rizik Brothers. — And other top of the line retailers as Jules Garfinckel & Co., another Washington institution — was A novelty.

When THE First of all outpost bowed on F Street, THE brothers And THE stores other male employees dressed officially In tails has answer has their well off the buyers, WHO were installed In living rooms And individual bandage pieces And were present with fashions as opposite has manufacturing their own selections. Home deliveries were accomplished by horse And carriage For THE tributary customer base, WHO included THE spouses of diplomats, The politicians And worldly people.

After A fire empty THE original location, A reconstruction was completed In 1929 In A French Baroque style with A hat living room, as GOOD as furs And scarves present on THE main ground with A strongly colored decor inspired by modern art. A Louis XV living room on THE second ground poster evening dresses And wraps And THE third floor "Empire Bedroom" was patterned After THE period of Napoleon I. Ebony, walnut And holly Woods were incorporated In THE design.

As A high school student, Maxine Rizik begin throw In has THE store And She stayed strongly implied until he farm In 2021. That milestone capped disabled What had has been A 113 years old stretchable For THE belonging to the family operation. While others could to have welcomed retirement has that scene In life, She did not. When A Washington Job journalist called curious about THE closing, Rizik suspended up on her four times Before unwillingly hearing her outside.

While THE stores chandeliers And ivory colored loveseats can to have has been popular In another time, such retail prodigality And It is comparable clothes were No longer In request has THE degree they had once has been. Moreover, THE precariousness of America, online purchases, THE pandemic close And more clever price conscious buyers had chipped far has full price retailers. " Let's go be clear: Back In THE day, people spent their money on clothes And accessories. Today they spend he on mobile Telephone(s) Paul Jacobson said. "In THE later years [of Rizik Brothers], A H&M open through THE Street. How TO DO You compete with A H&M?

A category that detained fast up until THE END was marriage dresses, he said.

Speaking of Tanous, her son-in-law said, "Mostly, there were three That...