The Country's Best Restoration Artists

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In an incredibly useful round-up, this weekend's Wall Street Journal listed the very best places across the nation to get clothing, shoes, and jewelry restored. The list ranges from the handbag makeover experts who used to help out Jackie O to an LA shoe repair place that once resurrected Dorothy's Wizard of Oz ruby slippers. [WSJ]