By Lauren Royce —<\/p>\n
On Aug. 21, Theresa Lepkowski was bustling around what used to be her shop, right on Front Street in Owego, celebrating the new permanent pop-up of her items in the Owego Maker\u2019s Boutique. Arranging clothes on hangers and having steamed away all wrinkles, she greeted familiar faces and hugged customers who had become like family, eagerly awaiting her visit back home. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was nuts around 4 o\u2019clock,\u201d Lepkowski said. She was overwhelmed with how her ladies showed up for her, and her smile couldn\u2019t be wiped from her face. <\/p>\n
New items for Lepkowski\u2019s permanent pop-up in the store will be shipped in on a weekly basis and managed by Savanna Bennett, who has been working with Lepkowski and the shop for nearly a decade. \u201cIt\u2019s like playing dress-up every day,\u201d she said, and with a job like that, it\u2019s tough to be bored.<\/p>\n
Lepkowski closed down Lily\u2019s Style Boutique and moved to Clearwater, Florida, to open her new shop, Dunedin (Do-need-in) in December 2024. But when Tompkins recently reached out with an idea to collaborate, a permanent pop-up of Lepkowski\u2019s finds came to be.<\/p>\n
Lepkowski said she made it back to town the prior Sunday and spent days unloading boxes of clothing she had shipped to her mother\u2019s house to kick off the event. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that now her highly sought-after clothes are back\u2014 super pleased, and everyone\u2019s excited she\u2019s back,\u201d Tompkins said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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