With three floors of brand-name clothing (Tommy Hilfiger, DKNY, Polo) in a familiar store-in-store layout, the Bonneterie has served the preppier sections of Dutch society since 1911.
Men -- lovers, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, the faces you were accustomed to seeing at parties, bars, in symphony orchestras, in dance companies and behind the counters of familiar stores -- would vanish, often with terrifying speed.
For visitors, many of whom come to Dubai for work, it would be easy to stick to familiar stores, familiar foods or familiar languages.
While this map highlights an interesting comparison of familiar stores, the data is open-ended and stops short of drawing any conclusions.
Do some shopping in familiar stores in your old town so you're not running blind trying to find what you need when you get there.
I had innocently picked up my paper the next morning, and there on the front page were pictures of the block -- my block, our block -- cordoned off with yellow police tape, the familiar hubcap store and bodega where the kids and I often bought sodas in the background.
The problem is that a lot of the people with Vive headsets purchased it because they liked the deep integration with Valve's SteamVR, both its superb tracking system and its familiar Steam store.
I realize that the link between the cruel puppy mill industry and the familiar pet store in your local shopping mall may be so surprising that you don't even know how to add a dog to your family without supporting the puppy mill industry.
It comes with the roots still on and the stalks attached, and since it hasn't been air-dried for long storage, like the familiar grocery-store garlic, the skin enclosing the individual cloves is still moist, not papery.
THE EARLY MILES of that first day's drive were an odd mix of the familiar — convenience stores, sprawling housing developments and multilane highways filled with S.U.V.'s — and the utterly foreign.
