Former Downtown Clothing Store Manager Branches Out
Royal Oak, MI – Starting a women’s clothing and accessories boutique certainly wasn’t a “walk in the park” for life-long Royal Oak resident Sandra Rome, but she credits part of the decor inside Studio Sandra to a stroll through Wagner Park on the city’s north side.
Most of the items Rome sells are on hangars or folded on shelves. She decided to take creative liberty with handbag displays, hanging them on long tree branches she picked up off the ground at Wagner Park and secured by rope to an unfinished ceiling.
“At Christmas, (the branches) held chimes,” she said. “I move (displays) around all the time, that keeps it new, fresh.”

