Photo by Mike Brothers
Maurine and Don Sanders at Don’s produce stand located in front of Fashions 4-U in downtown Dunn on Highway 121.

•August 8, 2018•

By Tommy Stillfigure
for the News Progress

Fashions 4 U has been a thriving business in Dunn for the past 42 years, but business is starting to pass by like the traffic zooming by the store every day on Hwy 121.
Maurine Sanders was recently widowed from Henry Munch when she returned to Sullivan to raise her children and try to make a living more than four decades ago. After spending five years working at the courthouse, Maurine knew it would take more to feed and keep clothes on the backs of her kids and began looking into starting a business.
She took over an empty antique store in Dunn which is located between Bethany and Sullivan along highway 121.
“I took my little car to those outlets in the Carolinas, and I returned with it filled with clothes,” Maurine said of her first shopping trip for the Dunn store. “I had about $5000 worth of clothes in that car, came back and sold every stitch by the end of the weekend.”
That is when Maurine knew she was on to something.
Over the years she ran small display advertisements in all the area newspapers, and soon people were driving from all around to shop for her specialty sweatshirts and Alfred Dunner clothing for women which became one of her most popular lines.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.