Children's Clothing Shop and Antique Store Open At 58 Main Street

Linda Pope has opened Lola’s Vintage Closet and Teresa Coletta has opened Lina Piccolina, a child’s upscale-resale apparel store.

Coletta is back on Main Street in the building she occupied for a number of years as an interior designer. This time she is adding her design talents to the clothing displays in her children’s resale shop.

She taught interior design at RISD, and at one time had a design business that occupied the entire top floor of 58 Main Street and took her around the world.

After retiring four years ago, Coletta did some traveling and continued to collect clothes for her two granddaughters. 

She enjoyed buying children’s clothing, sometimes adding her own touch to the design, and kept it up even as the girls grew older and started making their own choices.

Eventually the collection grew too big, forcing her to make some choices. She happened to see her old landlord, Dale DeJoy, and learned he had space available on the “garden level” of 58 Main.  

The inventory includes clothing for boys and girls from newborn to six years old and is a mixture of new and pre-owned. Coletta stresses she is not a consignment shop, but an up-scale re-sale children’s apparel shop. While she doesn’t take consignments, she does purchase selected items from individuals. Her preferred brands include names like Janie & Jack, Corky & Company, Laura Ashley, Ralph Lauren Kids and others.

With her walk-out location on the garden level of the building, Coletta has plans to use that space in the future for children’s events such as tea parties, birthday parties and Halloween events.

According to her website Lina Piccolina means “Little, Little, Little,” in Italian.

Linda Pope is selling antiques, vintage jewelry, vintage clothes, costume jewelry and furniture out of the same first-floor space she once occupied for five years. She spent another three years on the building’s lower level and then had a shop in the Greenwich Hotel for eight years.

After doing shows and flea markets for a time she decided to go back into a retail location and says she has had a good reception.

In addition to buying and selling vintage and antique items, Pope is also an appraiser, often doing work for insurance companies.

She shares the space with Dragonfly Fiber Arts, operated by Kik Navach-O’Donovan. According to Pope, Navach-O’Donovan spins raw alpaca and uses it to create various items including hats, gloves, and blankets. She also makes and sells soap.

According to information on the Dragonfly Fiber Arts business card, the shop features OOAK designs, using new organic, vintage & repurposed materials.

The stores are aiming for next Thursday's Main Street Stroll (Aug. 11) for their grand openings.