This whimsical clothing and accessories boutique for big girls and young women is the inspiration of Brooke Nieves, age 27, who enlisted both her mom (shares sales duties) and dad (repaired and refurbished the space) to help make it a go. Brooke's governing vision in the selection of clothes and accessories, as well as the interior decor, gives it coherence and attitude. Colorful and sassy, but never naughty, with a predilection for 60's-era Mod colors and styling, her fast-moving inventory is sure to have something fetching and witty for people of all shapes and sizes. At the end of summer 2007 my three-woman team of scouts (ages 50, 17 and 11) snatched up a loose and filmy square-necked minidress, in a geometric print of gray, white, black and yellow circles, dots and scallops; poking out from the hem was the saucy edge of its black silk lace lining ($75); this frock cried out for a pair of black, white or even yellow tights and ballet flats. We also grabbed an unstructured sleevless rayon, empire-waisted knit frock in khaki green that will look good over t-shirts, jeans, leggings, you name it; on the hanger it looked like nothing much, but the fitted bodice and draped skirt were extremely flattering on the body. In a deliberate exercise of self-control, we passed up a vision in cuteness -- a sassy, fitted sleeveless cotton sheath in black-and-white gigham, which rocketed beyond the ordinary with black ties emerging from the narrow black Peter Pan collar that circled the very low scooped neckline, a black heart-shaped patch stitched atop one rear hip and a pink heart-shaped patch pocket in front on the opposite hip ($75). Also left behind for other lucky shoppers was a fabulous 30s-style pencil skirt in cotton, white stripes on black, with a flounce and a hint of petticoat under that set into the bottom of the back seam. If you dare wear it on the street in daylight, it would pair perfectly with the sleeveless white cotton eyelet blouse with scooped front and ties that knot across the neck. Any 10-year-old with a birthday coming up would have been happy to find among her pile of presents one of the two remaining cotton knit shrugs in size extra-small ($35) -- one white, the other seafoam green -- each scattered across the front with candy-colored blossoms shaped like those flower decals you used to see on Volkswagon Beetles back in the 60s; the sweaters are edged along neck, front, bottom and the hems of the 3/4-length sleeves with a contrasting band of black. A style-conscious coed or decidedly unstodgy young professional could get a lot of use out of the black cotton short-sleeve blouse that buttoned off-center and went a step beyond mere novelty with a few judiciously set vertical and horizontal strips of white across the front, the whole calling to mind a Mondrian painting ($55). No one can help loving the playful inexpensive earrings -- in giant plastic hoops and discs -- along with necklaces and bracelets, that are scattered around the store, even if not all of us have the nerve to show up at the office in them. The ubiquitous skull motif of 2007 was put to surprisingly low-key use in a couple of pieces, one an empire-waisted spaghetti-strap jersey sundress (or nightgown), the bodice orchid-colored and the skirt a multi-colored print on white featuring, among other shapes and symbols, those not-so-Goth-after-all you-know-whats. The other piece was a white T-shirt with a festive black, orange and yellow scribbled design on the front that turned out, if you took a good look, also to be pirate-themed. The T-shirt looked great with the pencil skirt described above. Nothing menacing about either pirate piece. Everyone who lives in or near Cleveland, or finds herself passing through, should add something to her wardrobe from Powter Puff now and then.