White inside the newly opened Drizzle + Shine (Image: CHS)
Jean White has been vegan for years. Her new Capitol Hill eco boutique has been vegan for all of one day.
Drizzle + Shine opened Wednesday in a commercial space along 15th Ave E on the Group Health Capitol Hill campus.
“I’ve been vegan for 16 years,” White tells CHS. “I extended that to my clothing.”
The new store sells clothing and accessories from undies to sunglasses to shoes — for men and women and everybody. Items stocked at Drizzle + Shine are animal-free and the goods are either fair trade, organic, local, USA-made, recycled — or all of the above.
“The environmental aspect is the central goal,” White says.
The shop is an outgrowth of a style blog White maintained and while she also has created Drizzle + Shine as an online retail presence with drizzleandshine.com, she believed it was important to create a space where people can see and feel the products in person.
“My experience is it’s really hard to find a place to look at these labels,” she said.
Finding goods for the shelves hasn’t been difficult. White says brick and mortar stores like hers are so rare that manufacturers are eager to have a real-world location to make their creations available.
As for 15th Ave E, the space has sputtered along as a cafe in recent years with the eclectic Abodegas exiting the property in January. Insomniax Cafe also shut after fading in the space. Meanwhile, salon A New You has been doing its thing next door with plenty of regulars for years. White, who used to live on the Hill, said she has been happy to see so many people walking by as she has been busy setting up the shop this week. “I want to be where the people are,” she said. She hopes the hundreds of Group Health employees will also present a built-in customer base.
She also believes in Drizzle + Shine beyond its retail goals.
“I wouldn’t have just gone into retail to open any store,” she said.
Drizzle + Shine is located at 102 15th Ave E and planned to be open Monday though Saturday 11-7 and Sundays 12-5. Sunday, the store will hold a grand opening party with prizes and snacks. You can learn more at drizzleandshine.com.
It is great to see new retail. Welcome to the neighborhood and best of luck.
Thank you so much! It’s great to be back in the neighborhood. I’m so grateful to Justin for the exposure.
Are they never going to be open on Saturdays? Or just this Saturday? If never, a bizarre choice for retail. Hoping to be able to check it out.
website says Saturday 11-7
Hello – I will be open Saturdays 11-7 and Sunday 12-5. Thanks!
Sorry for the confusion. Fixed above. They’re open Saturdays!
Drizzle and Shine is open on Saturdays 11 – 7
HOURS
Monday to Saturday: 11 – 7 pm
Sunday: 12 – 5 pm
Thanks for promoting my friend’s store on your blog, but let’s give her a little more credit and staying power please and write in present tense! Phrase such as “has been” and “planned” are making her store sound unsuccessful. The store “planned to be open” and “vegan for all of one day” implies her store hasn’t accomplished its mission statement past opening day. Instead, writing in present tense: her store “plans to be open” or “will be open” and “will promote ethnical and vegan clothing for many years to come” is much more positive. Let’s support our new small business owners!
You’re doing more harm than good for your friend’s business lecturing jseattle over petty things when most people on this blog visit because of what he has created here.
It’s OK. Figure the teacher meant well. Means well? :)
Cool! We need more options for womens clothing in Seattle. I’ll definitely check it out.
Wish I were in Seattle to buy this wonderful stuff! Congratulations, Jean!
Jean is very passionate about making a difference in the world, to make it a better place for all. Vote with our dollars, we have more power than we think.
Thank you for this wonderful post! I’m honored and humbled and couldn’t have asked for a nicer way to start my first day in business. For the record, I love your writing and how you wove in that the store has been vegan for only one day. It is an attention-grabbing intro and is so very true (Drizzle & Shine has been vegan for two days now, btw ?).
Thank you so much!
Jean White