Women by nature are curvy,” Sarah Calhoun told her audience. “Squeezing curvy women into square men’s pants comes with a lot of problems.”
Calhoun proceeded to share a photo of said pants riding a bit too low on a woman, to the amusement – and applause – of attendees at the 2012 Women in Business Conference.
Calhoun was the keynote speaker for the biannual conference, held at the Bitterroot River Inn in Hamilton Thursday. She shared the story of starting her business, Red Ants Pants, as well as some of the ups and downs she’s faced along the way.
“At 25, I very naively said, ‘Start a business? How hard could that be?’” Calhoun said. The audience laughed again. “I had a lot to learn and made a lot of mistakes.”