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Women’s Clothing Shop ‘Shen New York’ Closes Morse Court Location

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Saying she found it difficult to make up for slow sales periods in town, the owner of a women’s clothing shop on Morse Court has closed the store to focus on two other locations. Carol Shen had opened Shen New York at 1 Morse Court last May in the 800-square-foot space near Main Street that for three decades had housed Dance Corner Plus. A Fairfield County resident, Shen said that her overall experience in New Canaan had been “positive.”

“The customers responded well to our clothing and many of them knew us from our stores in New York and were happy that we were there,” she told NewCanaanite.com in an email. “There were a few good months when we had some really great sales with many loyal repeat customers. However, there were just too many slow in-between months when we saw very few shoppers, the lack of constancy in the traffic pattern made it difficult to manage our business so we decided to leave New Canaan and focus on our much busier locations” in Mystic, Conn.

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‘Shen New York’ at Morse Court: Women’s Clothing Shop Opens Downtown

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An independent women’s clothing designer with a long and successful history in Manhattan is opening up a shop in New Canaan. Shen New York, Carol Shen’s eponymous lightweight, travel-friendly women’s wear and accessories store, soft-opened last week at 1 Morse Court in the bright, 800-square-foot space that for three decades had housed Dance Corner Plus. Shen, a Fairfield County resident and Fashion Institute of Technology graduate who creates all of the clothes she sells, said most of her customers are New Yorkers with homes in towns such as New Canaan, Greenwich and Westport. “I am very familiar with these towns, I have been a shopper here and I come to these restaurants, too, and I have always found this town extremely charming,” Shen said of New Canaan on a recent afternoon. Shen said she likes New Canaan’s small-town feel and finds its residents refreshingly unpretentious and sophisticated in their tastes.