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Nina Georgiou and Paula Skeggs of Nipa Threads


Two mums taking on the world of garment decoration one slogan T shirt at a time – that’s Nipa Threads. P&P editor Melanie Attlesey speaks with Nina Georgiou and Paula Skeggs to find out more about their fledgling business and why they enjoy it so much.


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children, so when mums Nina and Paula met at their local childrenʼs centre they soon became firm friends. Thanks in part to their shared sarcastic sense of humour and their desire not to talk about their babies at every given opportunity.


It took several years of friendship before the pair talked about opening their own business together and according to Paula it only ever felt like a pipedream. She adds: “When you have babies there are not many opportunities to earn decent money or even find a flexible job that still means you can be around for the school run, sports day or the nativity play. The idea of flexible working in this country seems to be on the same par as unicorns and pots of gold at the end of rainbows! Why should we have to sell our souls to some corporation that couldnʼt give a damn about us just because we wanted to earn some extra cash. “After lots of good old fashioned rants about the world of business we thought why the hell donʼt we just start our own? And the rest as they say is history.”


Slogan clothing Nipa Threads officially came into being in June 2019 as a slogan clothing company. Catchy slogans such as ʻpeace takerʼ, ʻmother funksterʼ and ʻwe all need


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s any young mum will tell you it can be hard to find time to talk to anyone other than your


good tribesʼ adorn their clothing. “We have lots of fun coming up with slogans to decorate our range of T shirts, sweatshirts, tote bags and make up and accessory bags, even if it does always seem to happen just as we are falling asleep! We now always sleep with pen and paper next to the bed!” explains Nina. “We often use our love of old school music to help inspire us and we also like to have a rather tongue in cheek approach to our slogans. Paula can sometimes get a little too cheeky, whereas I try to be the voice of reason! Whether or not French Connection did it first it's probably not best to blatantly put swear words on clothing, especially now our kids can read! However, we think that


people would understand where we are going with the slogan ʻpeace takerʼ!” All of Nipa Threadsʼ products can be fully customised by customers to make an item truly unique to them. Firstly, customers can choose their favourite slogan, then their chosen colour and then finally their favourite ink colour. Nipa Threads is a unisex brand so the slogans are divided by kids and adults online. Currently Nipa Threads has two different T shirt styles in the adult section – a classic T and a rolled cuff muscle T. All items are printed to order, which means no waste. “We wanted to be as mindful as we could about the environment and the impact our business could have on it. By printing to order we are not left with


Take a leap of faith and go for what you want. Do not listen to doubters as you never know whether they are giving you honest advice or are just slightly jealous! It takes guts to start your own business but that feeling we got when our website went live was incredible. Then getting our first order, well that was like no other feeling! Pride, excitement, joy and a sense of achievement all rolled into one.


– Paula Skeggs, Nipa Threads www.printwearandpromotion.co.uk


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