New Canaan Biz on Biz: Candy Nichols on Caren Forbes

[Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of “Biz on Biz,” where New Canaan business owners or employees from one place tell us what they like about a shop somewhere else. Here’s the first installment.]

By Michael Dinan

There’s one item available in New Canaan that Elizabeth Correa gives as a gift more often than any other: a stone necklace from Caren Forbes & Co. Correa owns Candy Nichols, an independent children’s clothing and accessories store that moved form Elm to Main Street last summer. The necklaces from the nearby “boutique at the top of the stairs” (Caren Forbes, a few doors down on Main) are simple and elegant, Correa said. “It’s a long necklace, usually with multicolor stones, just to dress up, say with a T-shirt,” Correa told NewCanaanite.com. “I give it as a gift all the time.