Marshall Field’s Chicago Denim

  • The Denim Department, Third Floor

    The Denim Department, Third Floor

    The third floor always felt cooler than the rest of Marshall Field’s, like the air up there had been filtered through indigo. The escalator would sigh me upward from the perfume counters and handbag displays, and as soon as I stepped off, the smell shifted—less floral, more starch and dye, metal hangers sliding on chrome…