My crazy love of fashion started back as far as I can remember. I spent many days experimentally ripping up pieces of fabric only to sew them up again with a single needle and thread. My idea of a fun day was to go to local fabric store and spend hours browsing through pattern books and dreaming of the possibilities …... I still chuckle to myself when I think of the times I dragged obliging frien
ds with me thinking they would have the same passion….. At the age of 29 I enrolled in UFV for Fashion Design and spent the next 3 years working and creating. Upon graduation I applied for 70 different jobs in the “rag trade” and had a couple of calls but nothing that would give me the experience I was interested in. I took a job as a bartender and started planning towards opening my own store. In 1995 Uncommon Thredz was born in Clayburn Village. I think back to my first collections with fond amusement... …they were a little outrageous. In time my customers brought me down to earth. The first year I managed to design ,manufacture and run the store myself. When I found myself getting behind after the first year I hired my first employee and soon enough I had outgrown my little store in Clayburn and moved to Mission. During the first 15 years of Uncommon Thredz I not only grew as a designer but also have become an expert on how to dress women. Learning about body types ,color, lifestyle and what is truly important to all women. I have since retired from my design career and now focus on choosing collections of exceptional funky clothes that everyone has become to know and love. Over the past few years I have toyed with the idea of opening a second location. Having derived so much satisfaction from my experience with Uncommon Thredz, I eventually decided to take the leap and am thrilled to finally welcome customers to my new store; Mi Amor Clothing Boutique, located in the heart of downtown Penticton, B.C.