Style notes: The mothers and daughters who are always in fashion
Aoife McBride didn’t lick her fashion and drapery skills off the stones. Her mother, Mary, opened her MacBees boutique in Killarney, Co Kerry, in 1984, but before that, Mary’s parents had been running Crowley’s drapers in Killorglin since 1907. That’s 114 years of a fashion baton being passed on from mother to daughter and on again. As the third generation coming through the business, Aoife acknowledges her mother’s influence. “Mum is always impeccably turned out and I love the idea that you get dressed up because you love clothes, no matter what day it is or who you’re going to...