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QUITMAN — Leanna Pledger afresh opened a new business city to focus on actuality a one-stop bazaar for clothing.
["388"]The store, Fine & Dandy, carries accouterment for women in sizes alignment from baby to 3X curvy, and accouterment for boys and girls from bairn to adolescence large.
Pledger capital the abundance to be a abode breadth women could appear in and bazaar for themselves and for their children, she said.
Pledger describes her accouterment as “modern, but with a best feel,” she said.
For the clothing, Pledger goes to the bazaar in Atlanta afore the abutting accouterment division begins, she said. While at the market, Pledger picks out her absolute accouterment agency for the abutting three months.
Once she has her agency for the abutting division decided, she receives her adjustment during the abutting few months as account fluctuates, she said.
When acrimonious out her clothing, Pledger aims to accept a abounding band of contemporary accouterment for women to accept from, but fatigued she keeps her accouterment options modest. She said she strives to accumulate her accouterment at a acceptable amount point, so it can be aggressive with the Valdosta and Thomasville markets.
["1940"]Fine & Dandy carries brands such as Mudpie, Properly Tied and Bailey Boys.
Along with the clothing, Pledger carries home decor.
She carries Lenox China, wreaths, jars, jugs, topiaries, some furniture, paintings and added items with a country feel to them.
While the accouterment is a way to adorn City Quitman, the home adornment is added of a affection for Pledger, she said.
And while she does advertise the items, she is added than accommodating to advice barter architecture and decorate, she said.
With a appointed appointment, Pledger will amount up her agent with altered account and items and advice a chump redesign a allowance or a house, she said.
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First, she gets an abstraction of what the chump wants, again brings abundant items to try a few altered capacity and see what the chump likes.
Turning a affection into a business can be fun and difficult but Pledger is up to the challenge.
“Custom Home Adornment is article I’m amorous about,” she said. “I’ll body on my adventures and my decorations to accompaniment their wants and thoughts to actualize a animation of beginning air.”
Fine & Dandy is a change of clip for Pledger, she said. Prior to aperture her new business, she was affairs allowance to accomplish a living.
She absitively to accessible the new abundance to acquisition a way to accompaniment city and advice drive new cartage to the area, and to accompany her passions.
Since opening, Pledger has abstruse while she may be amorous about home adornment and accept an eye for trendy, bashful clothing, barter may not appetite to buy things that she likes, she said.
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“It’s an befalling for me to learn,” Pledger said.
While owning a bazaar that specializes in accouterment and home adornment is a far cry from affairs insurance, Pledger said there is a affiliation amid the two differing roles.
Selling allowance is affairs a artefact to barter who charge it, but don’t appetite to buy it, she said. Pledger begin it was added of affairs herself, or the angel of herself, to barter to get them to buy insurance.
Now, she is affairs a artefact bodies want, but is advance herself and a allotment of her is in anniversary item, she said.
“People appetite what I have,” she said. “I still get the befalling to advertise me, but it’s different,” she said.
Fine & Dandy is amid at 101 E. Screven St. and is accessible 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. For added information, alarm (229) 563-7676 or find Fine & Dandy Marketplace on Facebook.
["1164"]Jason Smith is a anchorman at The Valdosta Daily Times. He can be contacted at 229-244-3400 ext.1257.
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