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Stephanie Vanderhorst afresh opened Ample Girl Resale Boutique, a abundance that sells accouterment for plus-size women, at 1100 W. Patrick St., Suite B, Frederick. Vanderhorst afresh sat bottomward with The News-Post to allocution about her afflatus for aperture the store.
How continued accept you been alive on this idea?
This abstraction came to me at the end of April. And it came to me because a acquaintance of abundance actually had this aforementioned concept, but her food are in Florida. She opened a store; it was a success. She aloof opened a added store, and so she was administration with me the abstraction and the idea. I asked her if she was accommodating to franchise, and at the time she was not. So I affectionate of angled off and did my own thing. But the abstraction came from speaking with her.
How continued accept you been open?
We opened Labor Day weekend.
And how accept things been activity so far?
Everybody tells me it’s been activity great. I’m actual optimistic, so I’m consistently like, ‘Oh, my gosh, we could be accomplishing so abundant more.’ But for a baby business, as I would acquaint everybody, we’re advantageous the bills. I anticipate all-embracing it’s been activity great, we accept a abundant afterward on Facebook. But actually we haven’t begin all the appropriate avenues to acquaint appropriate now.
What types of things will the abundance offer?
We alpha off at admeasurement 12 and we go all the way up to admeasurement 30. And the acumen we alpha at admeasurement 12 is that a lot of our barter accept had bariatric surgery, and so as they lose weight this gives them the befalling to affectionate of recycle their clothing. And although we accept a lot of acclaim admired clothing, we additionally accept a lot of new items with tags. Oftentimes, we’ll acquisition asleep lots from some of the big name food as they close, and so we’re able to action them at a actually abysmal discount. There’s a lot of designers, not the high-end designers, but actually designers that you can buy at the middle-road types of stores. So we action aggregate from academic abrasion to career abrasion to accidental wear. We action handbags, shoes, affectionate accoutrement like bras, shapewear. And lots and lots of accessories, like bracelets, jewelry, earrings.
I’ve consistently been a ample woman/plus sizes. I anticipate the aboriginal I anytime was was a 10. And it’s generally actual difficult to acquisition accouterment that fits women who are full-figured.
So did your acquaintance with aggravating to acquisition clothes advance to you creating this abundance for added women?
Oh, absolutely, absolutely. I can chronicle to all my barter who appear in. We can allocution about things that they may not feel adequate talking about to boilerplate stores. I can chronicle to accepting two or three altered sizes in my closet, and clashing from division to season. And administration stories. When my barter leave — and this has been the experience, acknowledge God, back we’ve opened — they feel inspired. They feel like they’re beautiful, they appear in and they apperceive they can acquisition something. The best alarming affair is to go into a abundance and not actuality able to acquisition something. Or you accept a baby section. So we actually accept barter thanking us for opening.
How did you get into accomplishing this?
Well, I appetite to do it because I don’t appetite to be alive for accumulated America my absolute life. I adulation people. My full-time job is as a manager, so I administer 20 people. I adulation people, I adulation alarming people, and who bigger to affect than women who are aloof like me? I am hopeful that in the actual abreast approaching we are able to accessible added food beyond a brace of counties locally in [the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia]. And again hopefully I’ll be able to abdicate one day. I’ll be able to retire from my job one day.
This account was edited for accuracy and space.
New business owners absorbed in actuality featured in Accessible for Business should acquaintance Ryan Marshall at rmarshall@newspost.com. Businesses should accept opened aural the accomplished six months.
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