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Making Waves in the Boutique Industry: HUB 2017 Year in Review

I’ve often heard entrepreneurs described as squirrels who get bored easily, who have hundreds of ideas, and have a deep passion that drives to run from one tree or project to another collecting nuts, aka building something big. Looking back at the past year at The Boutique Hub, I can fully appreciate the analogy! We may even be a little nutty (pardon the pun). If you are taking the time

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Boutique Holiday Gift Guide: Stocking Stuffers

The joy you find in dumping your stocking out Christmas morning to find handfuls of candy and wonderful treasures really never goes away. Giving your loved one a stocking filled with goodies is really the gift that keeps on giving. Adelyn Elaine’s – $20.00 Choose from a rose gold or silver setting. Arrow Twentytwo – $16.00 The PERFECT cold weather accessory!  Pair this with any look to keep your noggin toasty warm! Available

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Gifts that Look Expensive, but Aren't | The Boutique Hub

Boutique Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts that Look Expensive, but Aren’t

We’ve all been there, wanting to buy something just out of our budget’s comfort zone. Fortunately, you can buy the high-class girl in your life something that looks expensive this holiday season without breaking the bank. But don’t feel guilty when you find something on this list you want for yourself, there is enough to go around! Here’s how to make someone’s day with an expensive looking gift: Shop Twenty

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The Boutique Hot List: December

Can you believe this is our last Hot List of 2017? We don’t really know how we feel about it. Of course, we’re thrilled to know just how many of you are shopping this monthly list (remember when you literally broke our website back in March with all your views), but a little bittersweet knowing this is our last fashion forecast of 2017!   Don’t let our musings fool you,

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Western Runway | The Boutique Hub

Western Runway: Western Fashion Style Guide

Western Runway is finally here! This year’s issue of Western Runway features a variety of content that celebrates all aspects of western fashion, including an in-depth interview with one of the western world’s most influential women, Kadee Coffman. Here on our website, we have even more content, including a first-ever extension of our Best of the West, featuring the top 15 western brands, voted on by the industry’s most fashionable

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Ropes and Rhinestones | The Boutique Hub

Western Fashion Obsessed: Ropes and Rhinestones

With the first round of the National Finals Rodeo quickly approaching, we’re still western-outfit obsessed, still shopping ourselves putting the final touches on our Las Vegas outfits. If you’re still in need of a few things to solidify your outfit, meet Ropes and Rhinestones, a western boutique based out of Solon, Iowa. Owner Alicia Smith is a western girl at heart, who started her love of retail early on, working

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Triangle T Boutique | The Boutique Hub

Rodeo Style Secrets

When it comes to western fashion, the wives and girlfriends of professional rodeo athletes are seasoned, fashion veterans. Whether they are flying each weekend to Professional Bull Riding (PBR) events across the country or making all-night drives from one rodeo to the next, these women always look like they spent hours on their appearance; when in reality they have a single suitcase to pick outfits from, and somehow still manage

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Livewire Clothing | The Boutique Hub

Best of the West: Top 15 Brands

For the past two years we’ve broken down the best boutiques to shop for the perfect western looks in our Best of the West: Top 20 Boutiques feature, but this year we wanted to do something special for the western brands we all draw so much inspiration from. While we were polling our list of fashionistas for their favorite boutiques, we asked them to nominate their favorite western brands, and

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HDWEST | The Boutique Hub

Old West Function, New West Fashion

Custom silver and leather work, and their crafters, have been part of the western culture for more than a century. These two arts are as popular as ever, with their functional use and unique, fashionable nature striking the fancy of practical cowboys and western fashionistas, alike. As long as cowboys have been around, boots, spurs, and tack are all part of what it takes to get the job done. With

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Silver Concho | The Boutique Hub

All Things Bright and Shiny: Silver Concho

If you’re a western fashionista, then you no doubt love a good piece of authentic, Native American turquoise. One of our favorite places to find such goods? Silver Concho! Owner Marti Wells is a native of New Mexico, so she’s grown up around the best turquoise her entire life, which has given her quite the eye. We chatted with Marti and asked her our best questions! Read what she had

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The Boutique Hub

Making Waves in the Boutique Industry: HUB 2017 Year in Review

I’ve often heard entrepreneurs described as squirrels who get bored easily, who have hundreds of ideas, and have a deep passion that drives to run from one tree or project to another collecting nuts, aka building something big. Looking back at the past year at The Boutique Hub, I can fully appreciate the analogy! We may even be a little nutty (pardon the pun). If you are taking the time

Read More

Boutique Holiday Gift Guide: Stocking Stuffers

The joy you find in dumping your stocking out Christmas morning to find handfuls of candy and wonderful treasures really never goes away. Giving your loved one a stocking filled with goodies is really the gift that keeps on giving. Adelyn Elaine’s – $20.00 Choose from a rose gold or silver setting. Arrow Twentytwo – $16.00 The PERFECT cold weather accessory!  Pair this with any look to keep your noggin toasty warm! Available

Read More
Gifts that Look Expensive, but Aren't | The Boutique Hub

Boutique Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts that Look Expensive, but Aren’t

We’ve all been there, wanting to buy something just out of our budget’s comfort zone. Fortunately, you can buy the high-class girl in your life something that looks expensive this holiday season without breaking the bank. But don’t feel guilty when you find something on this list you want for yourself, there is enough to go around! Here’s how to make someone’s day with an expensive looking gift: Shop Twenty

Read More

The Boutique Hot List: December

Can you believe this is our last Hot List of 2017? We don’t really know how we feel about it. Of course, we’re thrilled to know just how many of you are shopping this monthly list (remember when you literally broke our website back in March with all your views), but a little bittersweet knowing this is our last fashion forecast of 2017!   Don’t let our musings fool you,

Read More
Western Runway | The Boutique Hub

Western Runway: Western Fashion Style Guide

Western Runway is finally here! This year’s issue of Western Runway features a variety of content that celebrates all aspects of western fashion, including an in-depth interview with one of the western world’s most influential women, Kadee Coffman. Here on our website, we have even more content, including a first-ever extension of our Best of the West, featuring the top 15 western brands, voted on by the industry’s most fashionable

Read More
Ropes and Rhinestones | The Boutique Hub

Western Fashion Obsessed: Ropes and Rhinestones

With the first round of the National Finals Rodeo quickly approaching, we’re still western-outfit obsessed, still shopping ourselves putting the final touches on our Las Vegas outfits. If you’re still in need of a few things to solidify your outfit, meet Ropes and Rhinestones, a western boutique based out of Solon, Iowa. Owner Alicia Smith is a western girl at heart, who started her love of retail early on, working

Read More
Triangle T Boutique | The Boutique Hub

Rodeo Style Secrets

When it comes to western fashion, the wives and girlfriends of professional rodeo athletes are seasoned, fashion veterans. Whether they are flying each weekend to Professional Bull Riding (PBR) events across the country or making all-night drives from one rodeo to the next, these women always look like they spent hours on their appearance; when in reality they have a single suitcase to pick outfits from, and somehow still manage

Read More
Livewire Clothing | The Boutique Hub

Best of the West: Top 15 Brands

For the past two years we’ve broken down the best boutiques to shop for the perfect western looks in our Best of the West: Top 20 Boutiques feature, but this year we wanted to do something special for the western brands we all draw so much inspiration from. While we were polling our list of fashionistas for their favorite boutiques, we asked them to nominate their favorite western brands, and

Read More
HDWEST | The Boutique Hub

Old West Function, New West Fashion

Custom silver and leather work, and their crafters, have been part of the western culture for more than a century. These two arts are as popular as ever, with their functional use and unique, fashionable nature striking the fancy of practical cowboys and western fashionistas, alike. As long as cowboys have been around, boots, spurs, and tack are all part of what it takes to get the job done. With

Read More
Silver Concho | The Boutique Hub

All Things Bright and Shiny: Silver Concho

If you’re a western fashionista, then you no doubt love a good piece of authentic, Native American turquoise. One of our favorite places to find such goods? Silver Concho! Owner Marti Wells is a native of New Mexico, so she’s grown up around the best turquoise her entire life, which has given her quite the eye. We chatted with Marti and asked her our best questions! Read what she had

Read More
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