New Career for Former
Boutique Owner
SELAH MAYA ZIGHELBOIM | JE STAFF
Ginsburg, 62, has fi gured out the good life.

C women’s arole Early boutique
this year, she closed Th at Special Look, a
on Montgomery Avenue in Bala Cynwyd
that she ran for 36 years. Online competition had grown
fi erce, and she decided to close the shop.

Some might have seen closing the store they had run for
decades as a loss, but Ginsburg saw opportunity.

“Th e biggest diff erence is that I have a life now,” Ginsburg
said. “I was stuck before. I would get up, I didn’t have time
to go to the gym. It was all about getting to the store at 9 and
leaving at 7, and I didn’t have a life. My big thing is I needed
to get unstuck. ... I can breathe again. I’m out, I’m in the car.

I’m not waiting at my store. I’m the proactive one.”
She decided to fi nd a better work-life balance and use her
free time to travel and volunteer. But she didn’t leave the
world of retail completely.

Ginsburg works as a personal shopper. She has about
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Carole and Arlene Ginsburg peruse the racks.

Courtesy of Carole Ginsburg
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