“In 2006, I sold the Virginia store and moved to Charleston,” says Casey. “Rebecca loved it too and decided she wanted to live here.”Ĭasey says Rebecca had a solid track record in retail, so they eventually opened their second store on King Street, and she ran it until stepping down to spend more time with her family. “I just loved Charleston, so I flew my daughter down to have a look,” says Casey. Fast-forward 12 years to 2000, when a trip to the South Carolina Lowcountry led to chapter two of The Finicky Filly story. My mom told me the thing she always feared for me was that I had no fear.” “My husband had just bought a property in Middleburg, so I decided to open a shop in it-with zero experience. “I found very early on that I loved dressing women, to have them look their best,” she explains. Casey opened the first iteration of the boutique in her hometown of historic Middleburg, hence the name The Finicky Filly. Which makes sense, considering she grew up in Virginia horse country, where the hunt is paramount and locals are fond of names evoking all things equestrian, foxes and hounds.
“Jeans and the best white shirt I can find-and a jacket that has some interest to it.” Asked to name a fashion icon she admires, and to define her personal style, she laughs out loud and says she doesn’t have one. ‘He too remembers some finicky editor turning his preference into a fetish.It may surprise you to learn that judy casey is anything but the fancy filly you might imagine the owner of a luxury women’s boutique to be.‘The finicky Chuan is also very particular about his clothing.’.‘Bras are finicky, and, in my experience, require fittings.’.‘Mountain bike tires can be notoriously finicky to seat onto a rim and often require compressed air or a high-volume pump to create the critical airtight seal.’.‘The interface to the game is rather finicky at times and does require some specific targeting when attempting to point at a person or object.’.‘A beautiful, well constructed, accurate but finicky handgun is really not an option.’.‘With finicky precision, he models turntables, scuffed trainers, tape decks and BMX bikes.’.‘More frustration is derived from some levels that require finicky control.’.‘But getting the figures and tables right, looking up all the data and resolving all the discrepancies - it's all finicky detail work.’.‘And then - shocker - it turned out that the roboprojectors were finicky and unreliable and required careful, skilled supervision.’.‘It is an arena in which far too much time is being spent attending to finicky details within details.’.‘I was a very finicky eater, but I have learned, over time, to appreciate many foods, even eggplant.’.‘I'll just take the rest of that for my finicky friend here and relieve you of the burden of eating it.’.‘She should be at the bakery, serving finicky customers and drowning in flour.’.‘I have indeed been accused of that very thing, but then maybe its because of my keen sense of smell that I am so finicky.’.‘Vanessa owned an Interior Design Company, which was naturally funded by her finicky customers and millionaire father.’.‘I had spent most of my life convinced that she was no different than the finicky gods of Greek and Roman mythology and other ancient mythologies.’.‘She was prim, proper, and she was terribly finicky.’.‘If you are finicky about electrical appliances actually functioning in your house or having the lights on, you shouldn't live here.’.‘She's really finicky and now I hate helping her.’.