About Us
As I am entering an empty nest season, I am embarking on a new adventure to help other women feel confident in their style. We can find joy in every season of life and in such a little thing as what we wear. I want to bring unique clothing that you can enjoy grabbing from your closet and wear comfortably all day.
As for our name, Cora was my grandmother. She was known by her many grandchildren as Big Mama. The mother of six children, she knew hard work. There were always financial struggles which worsened after my grandfather lost both of his legs. My mother was the baby of the six children and her father passed away when she was eleven. Cora took the bus to work everyday, as they had no car, where she worked as a seamstress. In the evenings she grew a garden in the summer to help feed her family and sewed all my mother's clothes. She continued to overcome, even after being hit by a car which broke her back, and in her fifties she decided to go to college. She received an associates degree which she used in her new career as the head of maintenance for the college she had attended. Cora's Boutique pay homage to her remarkable legacy, recognizing her talents as a skilled seamstress, gardener, and cook- a woman whose true value I came to fully appreciate only after she had passed away.