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FLYING ­COLORS: Elaine Felag opened Feminine Fancies in 1982 and gave herself five years to work. Nearly 44 years later, the women’s boutique is still going strong. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

4 decades later, Felag’s store stays in vogue

Business Services
PBN Business Women Awards 2026 ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Elaine Felag, Feminine Fancies For more than four decades, Elaine Felag has owned and operated Feminine Fancies, an upscale ­women’s...
SEASIDE DESIGNS: Natalie Wray, who previously worked as a creative director for a marketing agency, opened Sunwray ­Apparel in Newport in 2024 because she always wanted to create her own brand. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Designer found retail inspiration in ‘City by the Sea’

Art & Culture
Natalie Wray, founder and owner of Sunwray ­Apparel, is all about combining local artistry with Newport’s seaside living. Hailing from Burlington, Vt., Wray first discovered...
WHAT’S IN STORE: Rachel Grady, an Ocean State Job Lot floor associate, stocks the shelves at the discount chain’s Johnston store. The company says its holiday hiring started in October this year. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Holiday hiring headache: ’Tis the season of uncertainty in search for...

Cover Story
Boutique owner Karen Beebe spent weeks trying to hire just one extra person ahead of this year’s holiday shopping season. For 19 years, Beebe’s shop,...
FLYING ­COLORS: 
Elaine Felag opened Feminine Fancies in 1982 and gave herself five years to work. Forty-three years later, the women’s boutique is still going strong. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

4 decades later, Felag’s store stays in vogue

Business Women
There’s no obvious connection between customers at a women’s boutique needing help with a chunky necklace and customers at an appliance store needing help...
RETAIL BOUTIQUES: Natalie Swift, left, and Dakota Whitworth are the co-founders of Harper & Tucker, a business that operates retail boutiques: one on Bellevue Avenue in Newport and another in the Wayland Square neighborhood of Providence.
 / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Harper & Tucker clothing stands out

Entrepreneurship
Dakota Whitworth and Natalie Swift launched a boutique in Newport in 2017 that had what every woman wants in her clothing – something unique...
ANTIQUE FIREHOUSE: Christopher Bicho, owner of six boutique hotel properties in Newport, including the Town & Tide Inn, stands in a renovated, antique firehouse that he rents out as an Airbnb site.
 / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Boutique hotels go mainstream

Cover Story
Early on a chilly Wednesday morning just before Memorial Day weekend, Christopher Bicho walks into the Town & Tide Inn in Newport. An aroma...
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