AS A young teenager off on an Australia-wide adventure, Laney Lashbrook-Gough did not expect to spend the next 42-and-a-half years surrounded by underwear and bras.
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Now, as she prepares to close the doors of Laney's for the last time on Saturday, Mrs Lashbrook-Gough remembered those early days.
A phone call in the 1970s laid out her future, as a young Mrs Lashbrook-Gough was told her mum had bought a lingerie shop and called it called Laney's.
Coming back from her trip Mrs Lashbrook-Gough set to work, helping her mother with the venture.
She immediately enrolled in a bra-fitting course with well known label Berlei.
"It was 12 months by correspondence," Mrs Lashbrook-Gough said, marvelling that now fitting courses take half a day to complete.
Changes in qualifications are not the only noticeable differences between then and now, with Mrs Lashbrook-Gough recalling a time when bras were hidden from view.
"They were packed away in boxes and stored in drawers," she said.
"It wasn't until the late 1970s or 1980s that they were hanging.
"Bras were just an essential thing, now they're a big fashion item.
"They're worn to be seen, not always to be hidden."
Laney's located in the heart of Pine Avenue, was originally located in Currajong Court.
"At one point, we had three shops," Mrs Lashbrook-Gough said.
The ladies and fashion store occupied the current location, Currajong Court and a shop-front in Narrandera at the same time.
Mrs Lashbrook-Gough's mother ran the Narrandera store for five years before packing it in to focus on Leeton.
"The 1980s and some of the 1990s were really good business," Mrs Lashbrook-Gough said, saying things were not always so good now.
She had hoped to sell the business on but had no success.
Sad to be leaving an empty shopfront in the main street, Mrs Lashbrook-Gough is keen to find a tenant.
While selling bras was here passion, Mrs Lashbrook-Gough said she had found lifelong friendships in her long-term customers.
"It's my second home," she said