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Le Dame Footwear
'You get a girl who is six feet or 6'2" and weighs 220, you want stability," says Le Dame owner Bernie Fatla.
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The idea came as Bernie Fatla perused the newspaper.
"I read an article in the Sunday New York Times back in April '06," he says. "The headline was something like, 'If the Shoe Fits, You're Lucky'." The story described the woes of drag queens who can't find shoes in their sizes.
"I told my wife, 'There's a business here,'" says Fatla, a Verona resident who for "26 years and a week" worked as a buyer and manager at Famous Footwear.