Clothing company seeks to help disadvantaged children get education, improve lives

A startup Menomonie children’s clothing design company with a mission to help children is attracting University of Wisconsin-Stout graduates and students who want to help with the cause.

Cross Border Wear, founded by Vivian Ngo, who has attended UW-Stout taking apparel design classes, said two years ago she returned to her home country of Vietnam and visited a couple of orphanages. “I saw the living conditions of the kids and I needed to help them,” Ngo said.

She designed dresses for some of the orphans to wear for the upcoming new year in Vietnam.

Still, Ngo wanted to do more. This year she started Cross Border Wear, a company that designs clothes for children, including dresses and casual clothing, and offers some jewelry and home décor online at crossborderwear.com. Fifty percent of proceeds go to help disadvantaged children in Vietnam to help them get education and improve their lives through donations.

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