Posted on September 10, 2007
The new bohemian style clothing boutique La De Da has settled into its new home in Downtown Harrisonburg. Located across from Dave’s Taverna and next to the Earth and Tea Café, the family run store is owned by Carole Hughes and managed by her two sisters Marty Carpenter and Jennie Warner.
“We have always worked well together and had fun,” said Carpenter.
The shop is an extension of a larger store in Roanoke, also owned by Hughes and has been in business for 13 years. The sisters chose the location because they have close ties to the area. Carpenter, who lives in the Harrisonburg community, is “happy to be back.”
According to Carpenter, much of the building had to be repaired before the opening date last April. Further renovations will continue next summer. The family completed many of the repairs to the shop. The stands for the clothing were made by hand and the stain glass window in the front of the shop traveled to Harrisonburg from a church in Pennsylvania.
“All the planets in the stars aligned at the right time to start the shop,” said Carpenter.
Carpenter describes the clothing of the shop as “certainly not classic” and “not cookie-cutter.” Carpenter compares the style of La De Da to another retail store, Anthropology. The boutique sells clothing as well as furniture and accessories from Free People, Cream Soda, Sugar Shoes, Lucchese cowboy boots, Butterfly Dropout, Dancing Paris and Hanky Panky.
Carpenter said that the store is unique because of the charitable brands that it sells such as Free People, which pays its overseas workers well and Tom’s Shoes, which matches every pair of shoe purchased with a donation to children in need across the globe. The shop is open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m..
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