QUITMAN —
Lari Hagan runs her own business and Kim Snow works a full-time job, but both women have started something new — Girls of the South T-Shirts.
“We (don’t) want to do anything negative with the T-shirts,” Snow said. “We wanted them to be very tasteful. The idea was for the T-shirts to be positive for any age group. We’re both Christian, so we wanted to have that as the basis for it.”
The T-shirt business, whose motto is “quality apparel for Southern women and those that wish they were,” carries a variety of sayings on the back under the “Girls of the South” logo, such as “wears flip-flops all year long.” They also have T-shirts for fans of the Lowndes High School Vikings, Valdosta State University Blazers and the Brooks County High School Trojans.
According to girlsofthesouthtshirts.com, Snow and Hagan plan on having a T-shirt for Valdosta High School Wildcats fans soon.
Q: How did you guys come up with the idea for the T-shirt line?
A: (Snow) Back in March, I was sitting in traffic one day on the way home, thinking there was something else I needed to do, just trying to think of what I like to do. I have three daughters and a granddaughter, so with all of these girls we need to do something. So, I called Lari ... (who’s) very artistic ... (and) she loved the idea, too. I said, well, do you want to be my partner, and we went from there and started doing research on what was out there. We went from March, April and May, just researching and sketching.
Q: How did you come up with the name, Girls of the South?
A: (Hagan) We knew we wanted to have the name South or Southern in it and a lot of that has already been done and trademarked. We came up with the sun (as) ... it’s always out down here.
A: (Snow) We just started the motor with “T-shirts with a Southern flavor,” but Lari just recently came up with a new one. I work with several girls who are from up north and they just love the South.
A: (Hagan) That’s why we call it “of the South” because ... (it doesn’t matter) if you’re from somewhere else and you live here now. One of my first customers said, “But I’m not from the South,” and I told her to read it. You don’t have to be born and raised here, you just have to live here.
Q: Are you guys planning to expand any?
A: (Hagan) Right now are shirts are available on our website, at Gifted in Quitman, Greek Row in Valdosta, and there’s a store in Colquitt named Dee’s that carries our shirts. It’s my hometown ... we’re sending samples to various places and waiting for responses from them.
A: (Snow) June 1 was our official first day of business. We’re taking baby steps and trying to build and we’ve got pages of ideas and sketches.
A: (Hagan) We’ve also had two different companies approach us, asking us to design them shirts, with our logo, but design for them for specific purposes, such as the Breast Cancer Awareness T-shirt we did for the Maternal Child wing at the hospital, and we’re doing some for BCT Gin in Morven to give their customers.
Q: What does it feel like to see people wearing your designs?
A: (Hagan) It’s so neat to see someone you don’t know wearing them. It’s one thing when friends and family buy a shirt from you.
A: (Snow) I was taking the girls to the middle school one morning and my daughter had one on. She got out and then there were two other girls that had Girls of the South T-shirts on, all different shirts, and I called Lari and was like, “You wouldn’t believe this!”
A: (Hagan) We’d love to go to Atlanta and see someone wearing one.
Girls of the South T-shirts
Where: Available at Greek Row, 1412 Baytree Road, Valdosta; Gifted, 311 E. Screven St., Quitman; Dee’s, 116 W. Main St., Colquitt; and online at www.girlsofthesouthtshirts.com.
Info: Email gotstshirts@yahoo.com or call Kim Snow at (229) 300-2882) or Lari Hagan (229) 263-2359 to learn more.
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Kim Snow and Lari Hagan own and operate Girls of the South T-Shirts. Their shirts can be bought at a number of locations across South Georgia, such as Gifted, a store in Quitman. Karah-Leigh Hancock
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One of the most popular T-shirts that Girls of the South T-shirts makes is known as the "flip-flop" T-shirt, shown above. Karah-Leigh Hancock
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Girls of the South T-shirts is based out of Dixie, just west of Quitman. Their shirts can be found at a number of locations, such as Gifted in Quitman and Greek Row in Valdosta. Karah-Leigh Hancock
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