By Michelle Sutherlin

For The Transcript

Tucked away in a little wooden house off Main Street and University Boulevard in Norman lies a women’s boutique full of accessories, apparel and gifts.

Anita’s is a jewelry and accessory boutique with some up-scale and unique clothes, said store owner Anita Shilling.

The boutique, 114 S. University Blvd., behind Norman Stamp and Seal, shares a small house that has been turned into a duplex of shops.

“This is a neat little house and women like to shop in little houses,” Shilling said.

The store is open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Anita’s phone number is 360-7559.

Shilling has been in the house for 10 years, but spent the first eight years operating an up-scale consignment shop.

She is celebrating the shop’s two year anniversary as a boutique, but word has been slow to get out about the change. Even phone books still have her listed incorrectly.

Norman women who think they have to travel to Oklahoma City to select unusual and up-scale new accessories and apparel really don’t have to travel farther than downtown Norman, she said.

Anita’s carries the same clothing labels found in the popular boutiques in Oklahoma City, including Lily and Multiples. A new line she is carrying is Jackets Galore, which features fun and interesting jackets for women, “who want to be the best they can be,” Shilling said.

When Shilling makes an order of clothes she said she never orders more than six of the same item. She said she orders sizes from extra small to extra large and targets clothing for women 45 and older.

To ensure each item’s uniqueness, Shilling said she does not order anything carried in any other store in Norman or even south Oklahoma City.

“We have business apparel items that I carry which are traditional items in feel but have some flare to them,” she said.

Most of the clothing separates in the store are priced between $20 and $45.