Windy City TimesStore's specialty: transgender womenby Lauren Everitt | 2012-01-18 | Retrieved from the Internet on January 22, 2012 by SJ
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The yellow-brick boutique across from the Arlington Heights Village Hall was the talk of the town when it set up shop 12 years ago. It's a simple affair, built in the geometric style of an '80s strip mall, with "Transformations" scrawled in white across the black awning. Sandwiched between a red-brick house and a photography studio, where framed families flash toothy smiles from the window, the building is, well, ordinary—from the outside.
Transformations by Rori (110 S. Arlington Heights Rd., Arlington Heights) is the only full-service commercial shop for transgender women in the Chicago area. (Its sister store is located in Key Largo, Fla.)
The boutique is a refuge for those who have long embraced their inner chic and for those taking their first teetering steps in stilettos. It has two dressing rooms and a beauty bar where the staff works their magic. In walks a suit and tie; out walks Kimberley, Gina or Erica
