Shopping

Thayer Street, the main commercial district for the university, is home to the official Brown Bookstore, at no. 244 (at the corner of Olive St.). Also in the vicinity are Silverberry's, at no. 220, with dressy and casual clothes for college-age women, and Hillhouse, no. 135, long in the business of providing male Brownies with Ivy dress-up clothes for interview weeks and parents' days.