T-Elle Boutique Legacy Lives On As New Owner Takes Over
/T-Elle Boutique, a women’s apparel shop downtown Peterborough, has been transferred to new management and will remain open after original owner Lien Vu announced her retirement.
Victoria SL in T-Elle Boutique. Photo by Luke Best.
Victoria SL took over the shop on April 1 and has been learning from Vu since. The shop has been rebranded as “T-Elle Boutique by VSL.”
“I’ve always been interested in owning a business and this just seemed like a very interesting opportunity,” said SL.
Though she has never owned a retail store, SL has plenty of experience in hard work.
With a PhD in linguistics, SL operated an English language academy in Taiwan then moved to Canada and has been a professor at Trent University since 2014. She is also a licensed Zumba instructor.
“I like to do all kinds of things, this is an experience,” said SL. “If you have the ability to do it, just do it.”
She hopes that her taking over T-Elle might inspire others to do the thing that they’ve been thinking about doing.
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