Virtually immediately throughout the road from the Duck Inn on Okay-Seashore Highway is a little bit purple cabin that serves because the area’s latest ladies’s clothes boutique. Ang & Jess makes a speciality of promoting ladies’s merchandise, from clothes and denims to jewellery and tub works.
Homeowners Angela Henry and Jessica Johnson met when working collectively at one other Kenai Peninsula clothes boutique. After leaving that retailer, the duo realized how a lot they missed interacting with clients.
“Trend is simply so enjoyable, as a result of you may specific your self,” mentioned co-owner Jessica Johnson. She primarily handles the style facet of the enterprise. “You may combine and match every thing, there’s no ‘one measurement suits all.’ I adore it, and I really like folks.”
Henry and her husband owned the storefront cabin and rented it out to a nail salon. After that enterprise moved to a different location, the constructing sat vacant, leaving Henry to leap on the chance to open one thing of her personal. Johnson was on board with the thought.
The shop carries high-end and historically priced clothes they are saying will attraction to all ages. Though the area is smaller than most properties, Henry says the shop is way from cluttered.
“We match loads of stuff in right here, and I attempt to make it cohesive so that you simply’re not feeling such as you’re proper on prime of another person while you’re wanting round,” Henry mentioned.
Since opening, the duo says they’ve developed relationships with clients that they most likely wouldn’t have met exterior the boutique. They hope the brand new retailer not solely gives an opportunity to buy new and stylish clothes however serves as a contented place to attach and be current with fellow ladies locally.
“If you assist somebody understand their magnificence, or simply have the enjoyment of sitting and chatting with anyone that you simply haven’t seen, that’s a part of the group that you’ve grown to like, arms down,” Johnson mentioned.
“Serving to folks, seeing folks, even when they don’t purchase something, it’s enjoyable to only join with new folks,” Henry mentioned.
Adjoining to the boutique is a lately constructed constructing which they plan to show right into a mercantile with a espresso store. They plan to promote baked items, farm-related merchandise and recent meals from greenhouses on the property. They hope to open the mercantile within the fall.
Regardless that there are different ladies’s clothes shops within the space, house owners of Ang & Jess say they aren’t essentially making an attempt to compete with different retailers. Should you can’t discover what you’re in search of, they’ll gladly refer you to a different native boutique.
Johnson says the enjoyment of serving to a buyer discover what they’re in search of, both in-store or elsewhere, is one of the best a part of the job.
“There’s nothing extra joyful than while you assist anyone choose an outfit, after which actually, they mild up,” Johnson mentioned. “I can’t even clarify how the sensation feels for them. For anyone to really feel stunning and understand it, and it is perhaps an outfit that they’d no thought.”
“It’s only a shallowness booster to know that you simply’re serving to somebody be ok with themselves,” Henry added. “That’s type of what we needed to do, simply have enjoyable. No stress, no stress”
Ang & Jess is on Andrews Avenue, simply off Okay-Seashore Highway. They’re open Saturdays from midday to five p.m. or by appointment.
