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As a young manicurist, Audrey Patterson often thought she could run the business better than the owner.

So in 1969, she set out to prove it by openingRecycled Rags, a Corona del Mar consignment shop exclusively for designer castoffs from the well-to-do. Forty years later, Patterson is still proving it.

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