Clothing and shoe shops are among the first to start business, but malls are still shut as part of a phased lifting of restrictions. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.
On my feet were a pair of bright red patent brogues that I had bought from a sale in a children's shoe shop, air-punching amid the harassed mothers and screeching toddlers when I realized they fitted.
We can still see in Massachusetts rural towns the little shoe shops in which the predecessors of the existing factory workers soled and heeled the shoes which shod our armies in the early days of the Civil War.