Blakely spent two years doing double duty as both a loyal employee and an intrepid entrepreneur. During the day, she sold fax machines for the firm Danka. On nights, weekends and during lunch breaks, she took steps to launch the Spanx body-shaping hosiery business.
"I had been thinking about a product I could come up with on my own," says Blakely, 40. "I liked to sell and I was good at it. But I (wanted) to sell something that I was really passionate about."
It was a 1998 fashion dilemma that helped her find that product. Blakely hoped to don a pair of white pants for a party, but she couldn't figure out what to wear under them so she would look svelte and not have visible panty lines. Her solution: Wear a pair of control-top pantyhose, but cut off the feet so she could wear skin-baring sandals.
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Lottie L. Joiner
