REFUGIO
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High-Falutin clothing boutique offers Southern-style home decor for sale.
HIGH-FALUTIN OFFERS HIGH FASHION, CAMARADERIE BY MORGAN THEOPHIL mtheophil@vicad.com
REFUGIO – When people walk into High-Falutin, a hip, fashionable boutique tucked off U.S. 77, it’s not rare that they feel the store is out of place in a quaint, small town. “We’ve had a lot of people walk in here and go, ‘I can’t believe you’re here, in little old Refugio – you belong in a big city,’” said owner Debra Moore. But High-Falutin does belong in Refugio, Moore said. “We feel that it really brings value to this community,” she explained. “If you’re from a small town, you need a fun, welcoming, fashionable place, too.” 100
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High-Falutin, 208 N. Alamo St., sells clothing, shoes and accessories for women, girls and babies; clothing and accessories for men; and home decor and gift items. Also, the store has a section called 77 Outfitters, which offers fishing gear, clothing and accessories. Before it stood as its own vibrant store, the early stages of High-Falutin were found in a laundromat. Moore and her husband, Kenneth, have owned Greenhouse Cleaners & Laundry – which is on the other side of High-Falutin – for years, after purchasing it from Debra Moore’s parents. It was there that
Moore started embroidering and printing on shirts every so often, alongside running the laundry business.
One thing led to another, she said, and before she knew it, people starting asking for accessories to match
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