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labricoleuseI have some exciting stuff in the works for the summer, one of which will be the launch of my very first retail millinery collection!
A good friend and colleague is opening a pop-up shop in a resort town this summer--a funky boutique of unique, one-of-a-kind or limited-edition handmade fashion and decor. She asked whether i'd be interested in doing some hats for her, and I said of course! People often ask why I don't make hats for retail and sell them on Etsy or open my own millinery boutique or something, and the answer is basically that i love making hats but i don't love everything else that goes along with retail. Dealing with customer service, returns and exchanges, keeping the books of a retail establishment, all the overhead that goes along with a physical shop (or all the correspondence turnaround that goes along with a web-store). I'm just not good at it.
But, my friend's pop-up is a perfect way for me to do a retail collection, since all i have to do is make the hats and send them to her, and she deals with everything else! Eventually i'm thinking if this goes well, i could do the same sort of collection for other retailers of that sort--short runs of half-dozens and so forth.
For this first run, i have a market research question that i'm hoping the La Bricoleuse readership is willing to help me with.
[Poll #1908304]
Thank you so much for the input, and once we're closer to the opening of the shop, i'll be sure to share the deets on what hats i'm making and where you can find them!
A good friend and colleague is opening a pop-up shop in a resort town this summer--a funky boutique of unique, one-of-a-kind or limited-edition handmade fashion and decor. She asked whether i'd be interested in doing some hats for her, and I said of course! People often ask why I don't make hats for retail and sell them on Etsy or open my own millinery boutique or something, and the answer is basically that i love making hats but i don't love everything else that goes along with retail. Dealing with customer service, returns and exchanges, keeping the books of a retail establishment, all the overhead that goes along with a physical shop (or all the correspondence turnaround that goes along with a web-store). I'm just not good at it.
But, my friend's pop-up is a perfect way for me to do a retail collection, since all i have to do is make the hats and send them to her, and she deals with everything else! Eventually i'm thinking if this goes well, i could do the same sort of collection for other retailers of that sort--short runs of half-dozens and so forth.
For this first run, i have a market research question that i'm hoping the La Bricoleuse readership is willing to help me with.
[Poll #1908304]
Thank you so much for the input, and once we're closer to the opening of the shop, i'll be sure to share the deets on what hats i'm making and where you can find them!
