Peggy Hart Earle has spent her career designing children's wear. Earle first worked at Cinderella, a Pennsylvania children's design house, for a short time before pursuing her dream of owning her own children's wear company. She founded Hartstrings in 1979 and began to sell her designs in a booth at the local farmer's market, as well as small and large retail stores. Hartstrings is known for an "uncorporate" but efficient business style. The company was recently acquired by Keystone Trading Company. Peggy Hart Earle graduated from Cornell University as a Textile and Apparel Design major in 1974.
One thing that was nice, we had our own daycare here for many years, and I strictly did that because I wanted my kids to be near me, and it was fun too, because we made children's clothes. We would always bring them in for modeling. It was when the comp...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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