Mia Montgomery supposed for her on the net retailer to provide children’s clothing on consignment, but when the coronavirus pandemic started, she pivoted to a different enterprise product.

Immediately after beginning Bianca + Jean in Oct of 2020, the Hyattsville entrepreneur switched to selling hand-sewn experience masks in January. They now make up 95 p.c of her revenue, followed by hair equipment and market place bags.

“The need to have for fashionable, well manufactured, reusable, and snug masks definitely took off when I posted images of myself carrying the masks,” she explained to the Hyattsville Wire. “With time I extra other solutions that were being sustainable, and that I considered other families would appreciate much too.”

When she will make the masks herself, Montgomery operates with a group of mothers in Bangladesh to make the current market bags and sells other products and solutions from mom-owned brand names. She hopes to develop her merchandise line and include other folks to the on the internet retailer too.

Ultimately, Montgomery stated she needs to open a bodily retail store where by she would promote her individual items and host events.

In the meantime, you can acquire Bianca + Jean, named for her daughters’ center names, as a result of her on the internet keep, at Pyramid Atlantic Art Middle and the Riversdale and Palisades farmers markets. You can also check out out her store on Instagram.

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