Britches Great Outdoors Clothing Stores

Nothing is trendy here, says Chrystine Hanley, an Alcott & 038; Andrews sales associate. She says this proudly, even brightly. It's lunch hour in her store on Pennsylvania Avenue and the upwardly but anxiously mobile Washington women are buying up the silk ties, dirndl skirts, man-tailored suits and silk blouses, all of them cut in a style that's like what you'd wear to the funeral if a Volvo station wagon died.