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.
I just sold the company. So, this has been a long time coming, and a lot of thought put into it, but it's bringing the story up the company a little bit into its final chapters. With selling the company, I had to sign a three year contract to remain wit...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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