How to Start a Business as a Stylist

After getting the patterns made, the next big challenge was finding someone who would sell us fabric. Because we didn't have any experience, none of the fabric houses would sell us anything other than 100 yards or 500 yards. We only needed to make six bags. So I looked in the yellow pages and I looked up burlap and I found a potato sack company that was willing to sell to me. And they had three different, you know, weights. And I needed the heaviest weight so that it was substantial enough for a handbag. That was actually our first collection.