![]() ![]() A tiny booth near the cash register is stocked with religious paraphernalia: Shabbat candle sets and cards with religious figures. A huge modernist chandelier hangs from the ceiling, and the racks are filled with skirts, dresses, and sweaters. ![]() When I arrive, I’m instantly taken in by the store. On her trawl, she came across Top Fashion, a store specializing in modest clothes located at 382 Kingston Avenue, which is our destination this afternoon. “My husband loves a little Judaica gift, like a tallis and a gartel,” she says. They got married eight years ago on the fifth night of Hanukkah, so the holiday is especially sentimental for them. She’s been to the neighborhood recently to shop for a religious gift for her and her husband’s anniversary. Still, she wants a real-deal one from Crown Heights. Hay makes dresses for a living, and has pretty much reinvented the frumpy Yentl frock into a chic must-have. She wants to buy a dress for the occasion, which bewilders me. But Hay-and the energy of Crown Heights-have gotten me newly excited. The holiday has been commercialized, and I feel its original meaning of miracles and rebuilding has been diluted. If anything, I’ll light a half-burned Diptyque candle and call it a day. I haven’t really celebrated the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah since I was a child. It has the celebratory energy of the Rockefeller Center tree-lighting, just in Brooklyn and, well, kosher. ![]() Bordering secular New York, Crown Heights transforms itself during the holidays. The men have beards and wear Borsalino black hats. Here, women typically abide by the laws of modesty known as tznius, and wear dresses to cover their elbows, necks, and knees. For this edition, we shop with Batsheva Hay of the label Batsheva at the Crown Heights store Top Fashion.īatsheva Hay of the label Batsheva is on the hunt for a Hanukkah look in Crown Heights-an epicenter of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Judaism in New York City. Batsheva hays eggy hanukkah series#Welcome to Shopping With Vogue, a series in which we sift through a fashion lover’s favorite store. Photo: Courtesy of Liana Satenstein / liana_ava ![]()
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