Vylit Fashion and More opens shop featuring Thai-style clothing

That dream became a fact on Friday, when Tun clicked on the “open” sign to Vylit Manner and More in just one of the suites at 1607 N. McMillan St., in Worthington. Her 4-calendar year-old daughter was alongside her to rejoice.

The store specializes in clothing from Thailand, with selections of classic Karen and Burmese apparel as nicely. From brightly-coloured small girl dresses to clothing for boys in toddler to dimensions 10, Tun also has a huge choice of garments for females of all ages. Subsequent conventional Thai design, nevertheless, they bear no labels identifying little, medium or significant.

“We simply call it a free of charge dimensions, which are compact, medium and large,” Tun claimed. “That’s just one size in Thailand simply because which is what we wear.”

Tun claimed Thai clothes is identified for not demonstrating a good deal of pores and skin, however she does carry crop tops and T-shirts for the youthful generation.

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“We have a great deal of Thai-design attire,” she shared, including that her emphasis is very affordable style.

The daughter of a local businesswoman — her mom owns Sein Asia at the corner of 10th Street and Fifth Avenue in downtown Worthington — Tun observed a require for extra clothes options in the local community. Whilst her mom offered some apparel at her grocery retail store, she just did not have the area to display screen a assortment of merchandise.

Tun introduced up the concept of a independent outfits keep that she could operate, and her mother assumed it was a good strategy. She, together with several other loved ones users and friends, assisted make Vylit Manner and Much more a truth.

In addition to clothing, Tun’s shop carries a wide variety of vibrant Thai-styled purses, elegance goods, flannel blankets, bed sets and carpets from Thailand. She will before long be introducing choices of kid- and adult-sized sneakers.

A indigenous of Burma, Tun and her mom put in time in a refugee camp in Thailand right before coming to the United States about 14 years ago. They were originally placed in Kentucky, and put in 4 a long time there just before relocating to Worthington to be closer to some family members users and friends her mother experienced arrive to know in the refugee camp.

Tun was about to start sixth grade when they moved her, and in the long run graduated from Worthington Large School in 2018. She experienced prepared a vocation in cosmetology, finished schooling and worked at a shop in Spirit Lake right before determining the profession would preserve her absent from her daughter much more than she preferred.

Now, as a shop operator, she can function and have Vylit with her.

Vylit Style and Much more is open up from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.