Elizabeth Pape on Manufacturing and Selling Women's Clothing and Elizabeth Suzann

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🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Elizabeth Pape, founder of the women's clothing company Elizabeth Suzann, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about starting and running her company--a manufacturer and seller of high-end women's clothing in Nashville, Tennessee. The conversation chronicles the ups and downs of her entrepreneurial story, the recent evolution of the women's clothing market, and the challenge of competition from lower quality, lower-priced products.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.5	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.1	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:18.1	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.0	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done
0:25.2	going back to 2006.
0:27.5	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.6	Today is March 21st, 2017, and my guest is Elizabeth Pape, founder of the clothing company
0:40.4	Elizabeth Huzan.
0:42.2	Our topic for today is the world of clothing, the challenge of startup, and the world of pricing
0:48.2	plays in the clothing industry today.
0:50.8	Liz, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:52.7	Thank you so much for having me.
0:53.7	I'm thrilled to be here.
0:54.9	You were a very provocative and extremely interesting blog post on your company's website
0:59.8	that we're going to talk about in some detail in this later part of this conversation.
1:04.4	We'll link to that blog post, but I want to start with some background on you and your
1:08.9	company.
1:09.9	How did you get started with Elizabeth Huzan?
1:13.2	And describe what the company produces in sales.
1:17.4	So Elizabeth Huzan is the clothing company that I own.
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