At work: Bridget Quinn Stickline, owner of wee chic
While attending Goucher College, Bridget Quinn Stickline began working as a sales associate for local women’s bathing suit retailer Water Water Everywhere. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in psychology but said she had already found her passion in retail.
“I fell in love with the impact you could have on a person’s day,” Stickline said.
She continued with Water Water Everywhere, moving up through the company as it grew from two stores to 22. She gained experience in marketing, operations and buying. When the store merged with two other bathing suit retailers, she moved with the corporation to Orlando and work as its vice president of merchandising.
Shortly after her daughter, Elizabeth, was born, Stickline realized she missed the one-on-one interaction with customers and left the company after working there for 17 years and moved back to Baltimore. She was employed for a short time as a buyer for a locally based multi-store retail chain, but at the same time began to focus on creating the idea to open her own children’s boutique as she struggled to find quality clothes with a clean, modern aesthetic for her daughter.
When a children’s boutique store closed in Green Spring Station and space became available, Stickline jumped at the opportunity. She leased the spot in April and opened wee chic in May.
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