Debi Rangel is ready to serve Los Alamos for all its alteration needs! Her business, LA Street Threads, will celebrate its grand opening 12:30-3 p.m. Saturday at 1247 Central Ave., Suite 228. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com
Have a jacket with a missing button? Or pants that are too long? LA Street Threads, 1247 Central Ave., Suite 228, is here to assist.
The store will celebrate its grand opening 12:30 to 3 p.m. Saturday. To mark the occasion, a drawing will be held to get $40 off alterations. The winner will be drawn and announced next weekend.
Besides offering alterations, LA Threads will sell jewelry as well as women’s clothing. The business will feature the clothing and jewelry for sale as well as a fitting room. Owner Debi Rangel said she will do the alterations from her home.
Rangel said she has a lot of experience with a sewing machine. She owned a bridal gown store in Las Vegas, Nev., for 35 years, during which she sold and provided alterations for wedding dresses.
In addition, Rangel said she learned to sew through trial and error and did all the sewing for her family. She got into the wedding dress business after a friend, who owned a wedding dress store, asked her to alter a dress.
“I did it and I took it and ran,” Rangel said.
“I like sewing but my absolute thrill is to have things to sell,” she added.
Still, “every garment is different … so they keep me stimulated mentally,” Rangel said.
She also is putting her altering skills toward a good cause; a portion of sales will go toward local animal shelters.
As far as the jewelry that LA Street Threads will sell, Rangel said she has collected a wide variety of earrings for sale, and she said a friend of hers will be selling her handmade jewelry at the store.
Rangel and her husband moved to Los Alamos from Las Vegas to be closer to one of their daughters, son-in-law and grandsons. Rangel explained that her husband retired and she sold her business. Still, they moved here right as the pandemic shut everything down and Rangel said she was thinking of things to do. She settled on starting up a new business.
“It must be in my DNA,” Rangel said. “I have to do it; I have to own a business.”
She added she is excited to operate a business in Los Alamos; saying, “I really love the quietness, the nature and the beauty around us.”
Plus, after living in Las Vegas, Rangel said she enjoys experiencing all the seasons.
The people are another perk of opening the business, she said. Rangel said she appreciates how community-oriented locals are, adding that she hears again and again from people that they are going to support her community.
“I love that – that community support,” Rangel said.
LA Street Threads will be open for business 12:30-3:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Advanced private appointments will be available 4-6 p.m. Wednesday through Friday.
For more information about LA Street Threads, call 505.595.0009 or visit https://lastreetthreads.com/