BY LIBBY PETERSON Paula Chambers opened The Dance Circus, Bloomington’s only professional dancewear store, in Fountain Square Mall in November 2012—just in time for the IU Opera and Ballet Theater production of The Nutcracker. But the timing wasn’t as great as she thought; one month later, a fire broke out in a tailor shop two doors down. “Nothing of mine was destroyed, but everything was covered in soot, and unsafe to sell,” Chambers laments. The shop closed for a month while she reordered inventory and consulted dance schools and troupes on what products they would be needing. She also dry cleaned her vintage clothing collection, including a 1920s dance jacket, a 1960s flapper-style wedding dress, and a 1970s leotard/tutu ensemble. [...]
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