BizBeat: Green Button owner thriving in new shop

BIZBEAT The Green Button
Mark Wilson/News Tribune
The Green Button is a new tailoring shop that opened in July. Owner Anne Dulle works in the store Friday.
BIZBEAT The Green Button Mark Wilson/News Tribune The Green Button is a new tailoring shop that opened in July. Owner Anne Dulle works in the store Friday.

After spending almost two decades working for her mom, Anne Dulle finally has a shop to call her own.

Bridget's Alterations closed June 29 after Dulle's uncle decided to sell the property the business sat on. With her mom now basking in retirement, Dulle said their customers have found her new shop, and she hopes the support will continue.

Dulle's mom, Mary Eiken, spent 35 years working at Bridget's Alterations, a tailoring shop formerly located at 901 Madison St. For the past 16 years, Dulle worked with her mom, but now, Dulle said she has lots to do at her new shop, The Green Button, at 701 Jefferson St.

"Business has been very good," she said.

The Green Button held a soft opening July 6.

The shop is open 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.

Dulle said without help from her mom, she tries to turn things around as quickly as she can, but she's currently working about 50 hours a week.

"So far, not too bad," she said of working on her own. "I try to do a week to a week and a half turnaround."

For about a decade in her 20s and 30s, Dulle worked in politics in Washington, D.C., and later in Jefferson City. At age 33, she began attending the University of Missouri. In her free time, she started working for her mom at Bridget's Alterations.

Dulle said she likes tailoring more than politics because she can complete projects.

"Unless you eat, sleep and drink (politics), you burn out on it," she said. "A new president comes in and everything changes. With sewing, you complete a project and you move on."

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