Peaches Boutique is a prom dress retailer located in Chicago, IL. Peaches was founded in 1984 in Chicago, IL as a small mom and pop store selling women’s designer clothing. By the mid 1990s, they focused exclusively on selling women’s designer dresses. Today, the retail location stocks over 20,000 dresses at their 20,000 square foot space and is one of the country’s largest prom dress retail stores, and online prom retailers. Peaches Boutique's online store offers over 100,000 dress styles.
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Location
Peaches Boutique’s 20,000 square foot retail space is located at 5915 S. Archer Avenue in Chicago, IL, near Midway Airport.
History
Peaches Boutique was founded by Roy and Barb Surdej in 1984, beginning as a general women’s clothing store. Women’s casual clothing was gradually phased out while Peaches began to focus more specifically on designer dresses. Peaches was eventually re-branded as a prom, homecoming and special occasion dress and accessory shop.
Peaches keeps track of prom dress purchases and lets customers know before they try on a dress if that style has already been purchased by another prom attendee at that school. "We will not sell a girl a dress that has already been sold to a girl from their high school," said Jeff Surdej, store manager. "They can buy the dress in a different color, but everyone wants to have their own look.”