Carol Calderazzo Anderson along with her husband Brian are the designers of Sweet Baby Jane. Carol began designing a line of clothing in 1986 after she started selling vintage clothing in airstream trailer... The trailer was parked at at an old oil filed camp in south Midland, Texas. Customers would come in and buy 1940's suits and cashmere sweaters... Later I moved to a store in a strip mall and called it; The Cat's Meow.. I traveled the vintage clothing circuit which led me from Seattle to Brimfield, San Fransisco, Dallas, Austin, and mostly LA.. I was so successful in Los Angeles that I sold my shop to Steven Porterfield and moved.. Within a few months I created a line of clothing under the label "Carolina Valle" that sold in stores such as Janice McCarty's in LA. There is were you could find designers Carole Little, Nancy Heller, Ralph Lauren's designers and actresses such as Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilley, Pia Isadora happily shopping. I felt like I was on top of thew world.. It just wasn't suppose to be, my husband at the time decided to move back to Texas... I couldn't stay in LA because I had two teenage sons and needed to go back.
Oh and there I was back in west Texas with my fabric and sewing machine I had lost my seamstress and my place to sell out of.. Not one to give up, I started designing and selling in Art shows... Oh I was laughed at it was so humiliating they would call it "Washer Woman Clothes" I was in the south you know... I went back to California and did some shows.. Later I got into Painted vintage furniture, I created a line of bedding and opened another store called The Cottage Home, with my new husband Brian..
Clothing and jewelry had always remained my true calling and now my original designs such as bloomers, ruffled silk and lace dresses, and skirts were all the rage in Texas... Brian and Carol travel the country looking for vintage jewelry, silver plate spoons, and vintage lace... We love the world's longest garage sale:
Warrenton, Roundtop Antique Market... We have a permanent booth at Warrenton in the Chicken Coop at Granny McCormicks yard...
We love to create and love it when our creations find a wonderful home...We base our company and design philosophy on making the customer feel happy... I want the customer to feel in rapture when they try on a piece of our jewelry or clothing...