{"id":7366,"date":"2022-11-04T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldmanstate.com\/?p=7366"},"modified":"2022-11-04T08:18:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:18:05","slug":"a-daughter-mom-swimsuit-biz-thats-in-the-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldmanstate.com\/2022\/11\/04\/a-daughter-mom-swimsuit-biz-thats-in-the-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"A Daughter-Mom Swimsuit Biz That’s in The “Loop”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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June Loop Offers Fashions for All Body Types<\/h2>\n

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By Ed Goldman<\/h6>\n

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K<\/span>ristie Kemp is one of June Blackhurst’s 10 children but has the distinction of being the only one who’s in business with her mom.<\/p>\n

The two own and do all of the swimsuit designing for June Loop<\/a>. It’s an online store they operate out of an 800-square-foot pool-house in June’s backyard in Nampa, Idaho. (Despite its global unfamiliarity, Nampa’s the third most populous city in the state, with more than 100,000 people. So there!)<\/p>\n

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Kristie Kemp and her mom, June Blackhurst. Photo by Ampersand Studio Photography.<\/p>\n

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The company ships its mainly two-piece suits\u2014designed for women from 25-45 years old who want to feel comfortable in their own bodies again after sharing it with their babies\u2014throughout their city, state and country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But if you’re expecting this to be a heartwarming Hallmark tale about a quaint mom-and-daughter shop, please be advised that the June Loop multi-colored merch\u2014which began as completely handmade suits but is now manufactured to the owners’ very precise specs\u2014also has eager buyers in Singapore, Australia, Germany and Canada, among other ports of call. (So there again!)<\/p>\n

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“I had just had my first baby,” recalls Kristie, who now has three kids, “and I was about to take her to a swimming pool when she was just about a year old.” But Kristie says she “really didn’t like how I looked in a bathing suit” post-partum\u2014while, at the same time, she knew she had “nothing to be embarrassed about” and also realized how many other new moms were in the same spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition, June says, “Fashion magazines and the rest of the media have been making women feel ashamed of their bodies for years and years if they’re not a perfect size and shape\u2014as if there’s only one way to be.”<\/p>\n

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So Kristie, who says she’d “always been into using my hands and doing graphic arts in school,” decided to make her own outfit to wear to the beach: a deliberately unmatched two-piece suit with nonetheless complementary colors. “All of the woman I ran into started asking me where I got the suit and how they could get one,” she says with a laugh. “So I got busy.”<\/p>\n

Kristie had taken a page from June’s own book. “I’d always loved to sew,” June says, “and when I had six little girls and four little boys to take to a water park, I knew that the best way to keep track of them would be to make easily recognizable swim suits for the girls. I just let the boys wear regular shorts. For some reason, they were easier to keep tabs on.”<\/p>\n

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