Dragonfly

I'm visiting Santa Fe for the first time and wanted to poke around the shops on the main plaza. Most of these stores are overly touristy with questionable quality turquoise and over-the-top hippy garb that hippies and hipsters would never be caught wearing. However, that is not my biggest concern. What I set out to do was to find an alpaca (or at least a rather soft) blanket, and what I experienced going from store to store was rather discriminatory. I am a 21-year-old woman who could not get the attention of a sales person to save my life (and these stores were almost completely empty).While I was in Dragonfly, the sales woman (approx. 50) was attending to another customer who was trying on a skirt. When the sales woman saw me heading towards the blankets, after I had been puttering around the store for a couple of minutes without so much as a "hello," her comment to me was "Hi. Oh those are each $40. Is that going to work for you?" she said as she took the blanket away from my hands. I'm 21. I'm 5'10". I'm wearing a black French Connection sweater with jean shorts, and sporting Ray-Bans on top of my head. Not to sound materialistic, but I did not just come off the streets to rub my grubby hands all over your nice blankets. I am looking to buy one. So treat me like a customer, dammit! The condescension continued throughout the exchange, and though I should have just left and called her out on her age-discrimination, I really wanted the blanket.HOWEVER, THE PARTY DOES NOT STOP THERE! I experienced this similar age-profiling in Keshi, a zuni fetish store down on Don Gaspar street, where I had to hunt down a sales woman and ask her to sell me the fetish I had chosen. This experience somewhat paled in comparison to the Dragonfly store. It was absolutely ridiculous how condescending that woman was because I was young.Hate to break to y'all touring in Santa Fe, but this is profiling is common throughout the entire plaza area, and likewise if you are a middle-aged woman with a purse, sales people will target you aggressively, whether it be through your own shopping weaknesses or your kids.

Absolutely loved this little bakery. They treat the food as spectacular as they treat the guests. I had the chocolate ganache with what I believe to be cherries on top. I really wanted something chocolate and this did the trick. Very rich and smooth with just a hint of tartness to it. The atmosphere is complete bliss. Love, love, love this place.

I love this store, love the cloths, and the owner is extremely friendlyband helpful. The you sales lady is as well. They were extremely helpful in choosing the items I bought and I suggesting pairings for the cloths. I have shopped there on more than one occasion and will again. I enjoy seeing the new designs as they come out. The cloths are unique, colorful (although i am partial to black) and fun. They fit nice and are mostly a nice soft cotton. My only suggestion would be to get a new webmaster- the website has some gliches that need ironing out. Thanks for such a cool little shop and wishing you great success!!!!