Moms at Work
Teagee Jane's Is Open for Business
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Downtown Fairfield is getting a new children's apparel store.
Coinciding with the weekend's Sidewalk Sales, Teagee Jane's is marking its grand opening on Friday, July 27th. Teagee Jane's hopes to follow in the footsteps of the well-regarded Blessings, which closed its doors several years ago.
Owner Betsy Ryan, a Fairfield resident for last nine years, will carry children's clothing and shoes as well as baby gifts and nursery items. The apparel lines include Childrens Line of Vineyard Vines, Icky Baby, Morgan and Milo, A. Tierney, Blabla Kids, Pediped, Feather Baby, Angel Dear, Trumpette, Crocodile Creek as well as monogrammed bib dresses.
Ryan, mom to four kids under the age of 8, started a childrens clothing line called "MQ Couture" seven months ago and discovered that there were no children's stores in Fairfield where she could sell her merchandise.
Her vision of a business materialized just six weeks ago. "We were actually looking for office space for my husbands business," she explained. "I told my husband the site was a perfect location but pretty much a retail space which he didnt need. He then reminded me that I had wanted to open a childrens store one day and here we are."
She also found some office space in the rear of the building for her husband Ed.
Ryan worked in television production before retiring in 1998 when she started a family. In 2006, she changed careers and created a children's apparel line, "MQ Couture", named after daughter Mollie Quinn. So this latest endeavour will be named after her one-year-old. "Teagan Jane is my youngest daughter and I always call her Teagee," she said. "Because I named my clothing line after my older daughter, I thought I would do something for Teagee."
Teagee Jane's is located at 1492 Post Road, Fairfield, Connecticut, across from Banana Republic.
5 Questions for Betsy Ryan:
Favorite summer apparel purchase for your kids? "Toe Goez sandals for kids (were selling them!)"
Favorite Store in Fairfield? "Pickets, it is always featuring the neatest things at reasonable prices."
Most embarrassing iPod download? "If I had no loot" by Tony Toni Tone
Last book read? "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
One thing you would change about Fairfield? "A Town Pool but not much else!"
Coinciding with the weekend's Sidewalk Sales, Teagee Jane's is marking its grand opening on Friday, July 27th. Teagee Jane's hopes to follow in the footsteps of the well-regarded Blessings, which closed its doors several years ago.
Owner Betsy Ryan, a Fairfield resident for last nine years, will carry children's clothing and shoes as well as baby gifts and nursery items. The apparel lines include Childrens Line of Vineyard Vines, Icky Baby, Morgan and Milo, A. Tierney, Blabla Kids, Pediped, Feather Baby, Angel Dear, Trumpette, Crocodile Creek as well as monogrammed bib dresses.
Ryan, mom to four kids under the age of 8, started a childrens clothing line called "MQ Couture" seven months ago and discovered that there were no children's stores in Fairfield where she could sell her merchandise.
Her vision of a business materialized just six weeks ago. "We were actually looking for office space for my husbands business," she explained. "I told my husband the site was a perfect location but pretty much a retail space which he didnt need. He then reminded me that I had wanted to open a childrens store one day and here we are."
She also found some office space in the rear of the building for her husband Ed.
Ryan worked in television production before retiring in 1998 when she started a family. In 2006, she changed careers and created a children's apparel line, "MQ Couture", named after daughter Mollie Quinn. So this latest endeavour will be named after her one-year-old. "Teagan Jane is my youngest daughter and I always call her Teagee," she said. "Because I named my clothing line after my older daughter, I thought I would do something for Teagee."
Teagee Jane's is located at 1492 Post Road, Fairfield, Connecticut, across from Banana Republic.
5 Questions for Betsy Ryan:
Favorite summer apparel purchase for your kids? "Toe Goez sandals for kids (were selling them!)"
Favorite Store in Fairfield? "Pickets, it is always featuring the neatest things at reasonable prices."
Most embarrassing iPod download? "If I had no loot" by Tony Toni Tone
Last book read? "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
One thing you would change about Fairfield? "A Town Pool but not much else!"
