We want to keep it fresh, with new stuff coming in all the time."
"We’re not going to do typical seasonal lines.
"Marcie and I work closely together and we have a similar understanding of where we want to go," Ralston said. So shirts at Rix, designed by Marcie Norton, are made of 100 percent cotton, meant to be comfortable while being able to dress up or down for multiple occasions. With an active, outdoorsy lifestyle, he didn’t care for rayons or polyester blend fabrics, and said, "silk is nice for evenings but I don’t want to take the time to take it to the dry cleaners. "I shopped here and there but I found it hard to find really good shirts." The small shop features contemporary men’s aloha shirts, based on what Ralston was searching for in the marketplace. Now, at 69, he’s back with another clothing boutique, Rix Island Wear, which opened two weeks ago at Ward Warehouse. "But I missed the excitement of business, the challenges, the stimulation of being creative, the feeling of being part of a team I was missing all that." It was always stressful before and I was enjoying how pleasant it is to do frivolous things. The entrepreneur says now that, "I’d just been enjoying life in the slow lane.
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