"How to go from making clothes at home to selling professsionally: you can just go into any boutique and ask to talk to the manager. Say you're a designer interested in selling your clothing and you'd like to make an appointment with them.

If you sell on consignment at the store (which is when you don't get paid unless something sells), the store won't lose anything. It's a good way to get started, and it's great exposure. In the beginning you look for them, but eventually stores will come to you and want to carry your clothes.

In choosing stores, location is important. You also want to make sure your clothing matches the style of other things sold there, that the same type of people would buy it and that the price matches the other clothes in the store."