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Peloponnese The Label

Patricia Pantelios, founding father of Peloponnese the Label, was a comparatively late-starter when it got here to beginning her personal style label. Right here’s the story of how and why she got here up with together with her model of attractive plus dimension attire.

It’s not usually that you simply hear of somebody who’s carved out a powerful profession in finance dropping by the wayside to begin once more.  However that’s precisely what Patricia Pantelois, the artistic behind Peloponnese The Label, did!

Coming from Adelaide, Patricia’s sister had been eager to stay the brilliant lights life in Melbourne. Volunteering to maintain her firm, Patricia went too. When her sister Kelly determined to return to Adelaide after 6 months, Patricia stayed on. She’d simply landed an thrilling function working with a family identify in finance. She wasn’t able to return.

“Why can’t I simply have the identical garments that everybody else has?”

– Patricia Pantelois

In the meantime, within the “style capital of Australia”, Patricia couldn’t discover upbeat clothes in her dimension. Solely dowdy, frumpish clothes for a lot older ladies gave the impression to be obtainable. Nothing in shiny colors or fascinating designs. “You actually solely noticed ladies in my dimension carrying slight variations of  the identical smock costume, over and over.”

Fed up with carrying the smock “uniform”, Patricia began making her personal garments. She was frequently stopped on the street by plus dimension ladies and girls of all sizes complimenting her, all the time asking the place she bought her outfit. Their response to her reply was all the time the identical. They have been all the time each impressed and dissatisfied as she replied “I made it myself.” Ultimately, this grew to become such an everyday prevalence that Patricia started to understand that she wasn’t the one one who was pissed off with such restricted style choices. There have been various ladies who needed one thing extra!

“It had all the time been that style solely belonged to individuals of smaller dimension.”

-Patricia Pantelois

After 10 years and a stellar profession path forward of her, Patricia give up the job she liked, packed up her issues and moved again to Adelaide. She moved in together with her dad and mom and enrolled in TAFE SA to check style design. Nonetheless residing together with her dad and mom, she launched Peloponnese The Label on the finish of 2021. The label featured within the BLACK Costume Runway earlier this 12 months and may now be discovered stocked at Vogue Est in North Adelaide, in addition to on-line.

Focussing on night put on, Peloponnese the Label brings the attractive again into traditional seems to be for girls from dimension 8-26. A sustainable model, every outfit is handcrafted in Australia with most clothes being made-to-order. Sluggish style at its finest.

Peloponnese The Label is a uncommon discover in attractive plus dimension attire for night put on. There’s a lot to like about this superb new model that may cross over to sensible day put on.

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