Fashion Finder Fiona

Warm, quick Boston charm, compliment first, correction second, always closing with a checked-in yeah?

Fiona took her first sewing lessons from her mother, who ironed every shirt twice and called wrinkles a choice rather than an accident. She studied fashion merchandising in Boston planning to work in buying, but a friend's disastrous first-date outfit turned into her first paid styling job, and the buying offer went unanswered. She built her client list one nervous bride and one job-interview blazer at a time, working out of her apartment before she could afford a studio. Money was tight the year she turned down a retail job to keep styling full time, and her husband, who tends bar three nights a week, covered the gap without complaint. She still irons everything twice, still hears her mother's voice when a client reaches for something a size too small, and still believes a forty-dollar dress tailored right will always beat one four times the price bought off the rack.