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Maiden America is a Pro-Parent / Pro-Childhood Company.

Tim and Tristan Benz of Maiden America

About Us

My husband and I started Maiden America out of concern for what we saw as age-inappropriate fashions / products being aggressively marketed to our children. 

Our original intent was simple - to engage in dialogue with fellow concerned parents, sharing both my expertise and products and encouraging more of us to use our pocketbooks to change the marketplace, evolving it toward one that better matches OUR desires for our children. 

Parents, not marketers, should be the driving force behind what childhood is and looks like (for a great look behind the scenes, I encourage parents to check out Born To Buy by Juliet Schor - she spent three years researching "undercover" and provides a LOT of critical information - "under the radar" kinds of activity that we caring parents cannot afford to allow to continue taking place, right under our very noses!). 

Do you know of a great product for our store?

Our goal is to evolve Maiden America toward supporting a wide range of high quality, handmade in America products.  If you have or know of a product that would be a great "match" for our store, please contact us. 

As things evolve, our store tabs, content and brand identity will evolve forward, too. 

We look eagerly forward to including work from more artisans!

Thank you!

Tristan Benz

Maiden America high quality handmade and American made products.

 

Thanks for your Patronage!

Thank you for buying our products and for telling your friends. Maiden America grows thanks to the support of our customers who seek unique, quality, handmade / American made products.

Why American Made?

Our choice to manufacture goods in America means we can exercise a greater degree of excellent quality control and customer service, while helping our local economy.

What's behind a name?

When my daughter asked about the ‘waists’ on her ‘princess’ lunchbox, I found myself explaining  how truly sorry I felt for those poor princesses – how they HAD to spend huge amounts of time in the mirror trying to be pretty all the time -  yanking on corsets, eating poorly, fainting all the time and spending every waking moment trying so hard for princes (because they weren’t allowed to go to school or own property or do a lot of great things we now can)!  

I found myself telling them, Maidens are “everyday princesses” with the freedom to learn, work, earn and do SO much more.  How fortunate we are to be maidens!  How sorry we feel for the princesses! :-) 

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Tristan has degrees in Communication/Journalism (Santa Clara University) and Fashion Design (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising). In addition to her work as chief cook and bottle washer of Maiden America, she writes multiple blogs, home schools her three children, dabbles in mixed media artwork, rolls all of her pasta the old fashioned way :-) and is currently planning her next adventures in public speaking and social media coaching.

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