For decades, Norma Castillo has been sewing dresses just the way her mother taught her in Mexico, moving seamlessly between traditional styles and current popular trends; only what’s changed is the noise around when she does it.
From 1995 until earlier this year, she worked at the Little Village Discount Mall, in a quiet booth amid a diverse warren of stalls where shoppers from around the U.S. could find everything from rare musical instruments to exotic birds.
