The Fashion Store

Augusta Harris Polier (1864-1929) was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States in the late 1880s. Around the time or her immigration, Augusta Harris Polier married Morris Samuel Polier (1860-1935). Augusta’s husband, following his older brother, Harris Louis Polier (1850-1921), immigrated from Russia and settled in Aiken. By the middle of the 1910s, Augusta Harris Polier had established a millinery shop. By 1918, Augusta Harris Polier had changed her store’s name to The Fashion Store. The Fashion Store was located next to her husband’s barber shop, in the heart of the commercial district on Laurens Street. When she passed away in 1929, Augusta Harris Polier’s daughter, Rebecca Polier Goodman (1896-1974), began managing the business. In 1933, The Fashion Store closed.