Boutique Bivabori

Boutique Bivabori is right on Lake Road, at P-146. If you know the area, you know how the trees line the street and how the traffic flows toward the water. Our shop is just a part of that landscape. It’s a bit of an old building, so the walls have some character, and the floor isn’t perfectly level in every spot. We spend our days surrounded by fabric and the sound of the ceiling fan humming overhead. Most of the time, the shop is filled with various clothes we’ve picked out or had made. We don’t really follow a strict schedule for when new stuff arrives; it just happens when it happens. Sometimes we’re rearranging the display window for three hours because the sun hits it a certain way and makes everything look washed out. Customers come in after their morning walks or on their way to dinner. We know a lot of them by name because they’ve been coming to this part of Lake Road for years. It’s not a fast-paced place. We might spend thirty minutes just talking about the weight of a silk piece or why a certain dye didn’t take as well as we hoped. It’s just us here, trying to keep things tidy and making sure the racks aren’t too crowded. There’s always a tape measure draped over someone’s neck and a few stray threads on the rugs that the broom missed.