This weeks marks six months since we launched this new business. It feels like six weeks ago, and at the same time it feels like six years ago. But I think that time has become like that for everyone over the last year. The days drag, but the weeks fly by. In lots of ways I miss my old life so much, and in lots of ways I’m happy out with this new life. The last six months have been filled with lots of highs, and the fun I have daily on social media with customers has definitely kept me going. When we started this venture, we had no expectations, no real plan, no big goals, we just said we’d...
Well, we’re one month into our new life and our new baby business. And what a month it has been. We literally haven’t had an hour off, never mind a day! But we’re enjoying it all so much. The biggest hugest most massive THANK YOU ever in the world must go to each and every single one of you. Honestly, you’ve been unreal. Such support! You’ve no idea how happy you’ve made us. Our customers! Not including myself, we’ve had eleven beautiful women try on clothes for you all on our Instagram stories. Eleven very different women, in style, shape, size etc. And I hope if you’ve been following us there that you’ve seen just how beautiful each one of...
So, since we announced our plans on Instagram people have commented on the name. The Try On. Strange name for an online shop! But if you follow us on Instagram you’ll soon discover, that we’re all about the clothes being tried on. And not just being tried on by hired beautiful models, but being tried on by beautiful women of all shapes, sizes, heights and ages. We all know the frustration of looking longingly at online images of dresses on someone who looks nothing like you. And wondering will it look like that on you, trying to imagine, wondering and trying to judge it. I’ve been organising try ons with different people on social media for many years when we...
After nearly 20 years in the self employment game, and the last decade owning what I consider to have been the best boutique in the country, finding ourselves here today, was definitely not part of the plan. Covid hit our business like a lightening bolt and the rug was pulled fast out from under us. Only six weeks ago, I thought I’d never recover from the physical pain in my heart. But the outpouring of love and support I received on social media helped me pick myself up and dust myself off. And so, we’re back! Starting again, building from scratch, and dying to get stuck in. Anyone who has followed us on Instagram knows how passionate I am about...
My recent obsession with all things zebra, came out of nowhere really. I heard somewhere that no two zebras have the same set of stripes, and it fascinated me. I’ve since been told that the same applies for leopards, tigers etc., so that kind of took the fun out of it for me, but not before I started researching zebras stripes and found out all kinds of symbolic meanings and beliefs. So now I just ignore the fact that the same thing applies to nearly all printed animals and continue to live in my new found happy Zebra Land. I also started noticing zebra printed things everywhere I went in the first few weeks after I started learning about them....
