Third-generation owner steers Downtown Pittsburgh clothier LARRIMOR’S in new location
Sunday, July 11, 2010 By Joyce Gannon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

As a little girl, Lisa Michael tied bows for boxes at her father’s Downtown clothing store, Larrimor’s.

By her high school years, she and her brother were permitted to work there over the busy Christmas holidays or during school breaks, but only as file clerks or to help with supplies — never in sales. “My parents felt their clients deserved the best experience when they came to the store and that the clients weren’t choosing to shop with us so the children could get practice.”

So Ms. Michael became a waitress at 15, found summer work as a bank teller and never aimed for a career in retail. All she knew when her college graduation approached in 1984 was that she wanted to move to New York City.

Without her parents’ knowledge, she applied for the executive training program at Macy’s department store and was accepted. When she arrived in New York, she lobbied hard to work at Macy’s flagship location at Herald Square “and got what I thought I wanted.” 

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