About Us

Pumpkin Creek Clothing Company is a family owned and operated business located in West End, near Pinehurst, N.C.

Owners Darrell and Susan have decades of experience in the garment industry, having spent 12 years building and running a large maternity company for others, that was eventually bought out and dismantled. Intent on rebuilding — but for themselves — they founded their new company in 1989, but decided maternity wear was too "niche" a market to support the small scale operations they chose to maintain. That August, they incorporated as Phoenix Fashions, named for the mythical bird often seen as a symbol of rebirth. Beginning as primarily a contract sewer for other manufacturers, direct sales to the public at factory prices has always been a big part of their business.

From the beginning, Phoenix Fashions has been a “brick and mortar” business. Outgrowing a series of former grocery stores, the factory and retail outlet is now housed in a 12,000 sq ft. renovated grocery building. There they manufacture and sell the knit goods that are now the stock and store of Pumpkin Creek Clothing Co., as well as sewing supplies and equipment, jewelry and accessories, women's fashions and children's wear.

the pumpkin creek story

Pumpkin Creek meandered through the fields and woods of our youth. Along its mossy banks we built forts and fought imaginary battles, we walked barefoot and looked for crawfish and cooled our heels to escape the summer’s heat.

Pumpkin Creek was a time of life when things were not like they are today. When thinking about what we wanted people to remember about us and our company, we thought about Pumpkin Creek and about how much fun it had been and how it was still there after all these years, less changed by time than we were. And we thought about the basic American values engrained in us along its banks.

We at Pumpkin Creek Clothing Company are committed to being true to those values in everything we do.

The young dream, the old remember, in between – somewhere, somehow – the work must be done. Our work awaits you. Welcome.