Hair Bow Stores
Retailers and boutiques selling hair bows
A hair bow is a ribbon bow mounted on a clip, barrette, band or ponytail holder, worn as the simplest of hair accessories, and a staple of girls' dressing, cheer and dance uniforms, and women's vintage and preppy styles. This directory page is the accessories section's hair bow address: hair bow retailers and boutiques sit within the fashion accessory store pages linked here, and Ladies Way Accessories, listed on the jewelry and accessory store pages, is representative, a Virginia shop whose range includes hair bows beside its scarves, costume and gold and gemstone jewelry, purses and beaded collars. Hair bows are made in grosgrain, satin, velvet and organza ribbon, in sizes from small infant clips to the large cheer bow, and they are sold singly, in school-color pairs, and in boutique bundles. The hair stylist directory linked from the listings serves readers looking for the salons that style around them. Below, the buying points cover the styles, mounts and occasions that decide a purchase.
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Hair Bows as a Boutique Trade
Hair bows are one of the last accessories still substantially made by small makers: a bow needs ribbon, a clip, thread and glue, so boutiques, craft sellers and children's shops make and sell their own, in local school colors and seasonal designs no chain would stock. That shapes the retail listed in this directory: hair bows appear inside general accessory and girls' boutiques, like the Virginia shop named in the listings, rather than in dedicated bow-only stores. Buyers looking for a specific school color or a matched set for a team usually do best with exactly those local and online boutique makers.
Choosing and Keeping Hair Bows
Choose ribbon by use: grosgrain for daily wear because it resists fraying and holds shape, satin for occasions, velvet for winter. Check the mount's finish, a clip's edges should be smooth and its ribbon wrapping complete where it touches hair. Store bows clipped to a hanging ribbon or card rather than loose in a drawer, which crushes the loops; a crushed bow can often be revived with steam held at a distance and fingers reshaping the loops. Kept that way, a set of bows lasts through a childhood of school photographs.
Bows Beyond Hair
The same bow appears across fashion: on shoes, belts, bags and dresses, as gift wrapping's finishing form, and in pet accessories. That ubiquity keeps ribbon wholesalers and craft suppliers stocked in the grosgrain widths bow makers use, and it means a hair bow bought anywhere draws on a deep, stable craft tradition rather than a passing trend.
Common Questions
What are hair bows attached to?
Four mounts cover the market. Alligator clips grip a small section of hair and suit most ages. French barrettes lock a larger section and suit thicker hair and bigger bows. Elastic ponytail holders carry a bow that sits over a ponytail. Headbands carry bows for infants and toddlers with little hair, on soft bands that do not need hair to hold. The mount decides where the bow can be worn, so buyers choose it before color: clip for versatility, band for babies, barrette for large bows in thick hair.
What sizes and styles of hair bows are there?
Sizes run from mini clips under two inches across to cheer bows of seven inches and more. Styles include the classic boutique bow with looped layers, the pinwheel, the stacked bow combining ribbons, the tails-down cheer bow, and simple single-loop bows. Grosgrain is the everyday ribbon, its ribs holding the bow's shape; satin is the dressy choice; velvet serves winter and holidays; organza and sheer ribbons layer over other bows. School and team colors are a standard retail range, sold in matching pairs.
Who wears hair bows?
Most visibly girls, from infants on soft bands to school-age wearers matching uniforms, and cheerleaders and dancers, whose large bows are part of the uniform itself. Adult wearers take the bow into preppy, vintage and retro styles, smaller and in finer ribbons, and brides and flower girls wear them as wedding hair accessories. The bow is also a standard craft and boutique item, sold at fairs and in children's boutiques, which is why its retailers are boutiques as often as accessory chains.