About Schampa

20 years ago, Nora and I were at the end of our rope, we had nothing. After a failed business attempt in Mexico we were in the streets and besides each other and our families we had nothing. I had always dreamed of building a top of the line clothing company and I never lost site of my dream. I decided that Nora and I would start making dickies, a product I made for myself while training for mountain bike racing and road bike racing in Flagstaff, Arizona. We first introduced our product at the original Arizona Bike Week, result, we sold all 24 dickies off of our make shift table (a piece of wood propped up by 4 milk crates). The idea caught on and soon we were working day and night, a few weeks later we did our first big show, the Laughlin River Run in Nevada.With very little inventory and no idea of what we were getting into, Nora & I decided to take a few sewing machines, and a 4X8 piece of plywood. In our room at the Edgewater Resort and Casino we set up our own little sewing shop, we put the wood on the bed and used it as a cutting table, and arranged the room to accommodate our machines. Good thing we did, because on the first day we sold out of the majority of our inventory. By Friday night we were pretty excited that we had been received so well, but we had our first challenge that resulted in the beginning of what makes us who we are today; a request. A gentleman requested a dickie with a longer front and we said we could make it. Read their story