Look out, strawberry bling shirts. This year, there’s some fashionable competition ladies will want to wear to the Florida Strawberry Festival. Locally grown jewelry brand Bourbon and Boweties is releasing a special edition gold strawberry bracelet to celebrate the Strawberry Festival.
The launch is a homage to brand owner Carley Osch’s hometown, and the item will only be for sale at Plant City-based Fringe Boutique.
“We have a unique relationship with Bourbon and Boweties being that we are from the same town,” Morgan Feaster McGimsey, co-owner of Fringe Boutique, said. “We can’t thank Carley and her team enough for remembering her roots and staying loyal to what is local and what makes small business what it is.”
Osch’s line has had success since the Durant High graduate launched it several years ago. Broadcast journalist Katie Couric and Bachlorette Desiree Hartsock are just two celebrities caught with a signature Bourbon and Boweties bracelet around their wrists.
But it will be harder for Bourbon and Boweties’ mass clientele to get their hands on one of the limited edition strawberry bracelets. The only way to guarantee a purchase is to pre-order before Wednesday, Feb. 25.
On Feb. 25, Fringe Boutique will hold a Strawberry Release party with a mini trunk show, so shoppers can pair their strawberry stack with new accessories.
The bracelets will come in two wrist sizes. There will also be two different sizes for the actual gold strawberry: small, about the size of a quarter, and large, about the size of a half dollar. The small is $38 and the large is $40.
A child’s bracelet will also be made and priced at $28 in the smaller-sized strawberry.
“The bracelet is truly classic,” McGimsey said. “Its gold finish is gorgeous, and it’s engraved with ‘Plant City 2015.’ It represents Plant City with taste and will be nearly impossible to duplicate.”
Indeed, the bracelet has been designed with Plant City in mind.
“Last year before the 2014 festival we had brainstormed with Bourbon and Boweties and knew we wanted something, but not just anything,” McGimsey said. “Carley looked at every gem show, and every buying trip she went on to find something that we couldn’t live without. This year Carley took matters into her own hands and Bourbon and Boweties designed the strawberry themselves.”