Follow tangerine-orange carpets to mirrored display cases filled with compacts and lipsticks and bottles of bath oil. Descend a small stairway and round a corner. Here, on a harried array of unattended clothing racks, hang 14,000 garments discounted to at least 50 percent off their original price.
In 1973, Nordstrom calls it the Clothes Rack. “The better a shopper you are and the more time you have to spend shopping, the better buy you’ll get,” store buyer John Thompson told The Seattle Times soon after the department opened in the flagship’s downtown Seattle basement. “The messier it is, the more crowded it gets, the more
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