Someone once wrote that you could tell a lot about a town if you drive through and look at the shops. If this in, in fact, true, then there is a lot to say about the small 'community' that forms Napa Premium Outlets off of Route 29 in Napa. The names are well known and tend to be at the upper end of the shopping scale. Ann Taylor, Cole-Haan, Timberland, Mikasa, J. Crew, Nautica, Espirit, DKNY, Calvin Klein, Dansk, Nine West, Esprit, Levi's, Kenneth Cole, Jones New York and, from the world of gourmet food, the ever-popular Harry and David, are just some of the names that people this retail enclave, a fixture in Napa for four years now.

With fifty stores in all, on some days Napa Premium Outlets rivals Napa Valley's wineries and restaurants as the most popular destination for visitors from this country and many from overseas.

Sophisticated but with a touch of the whimsical, the Mustard Seed Clothing Co. in Napa Town Center has been dressing the women of Napa and beyond for 18 years with an unwavering sense of timeless style.
The names on the labels at the Mustard Seed include, among many others, such respected and well-known designers as Eileen Fisher, Tommy Bahama, Flax, Tianello, Gotcha Covered (fun things), Garfield & Marks (suits), Joseph Ribkoff, Ingenuity, Carol Andersen, Helen Kaminski (for hats) and Jump.
"We're considered a 'better clothing' store by people, I suppose, but we also have lots of things that are just plain fun," said proprietor and founder Barbara Wiggins.

The Mustard Seed has endured the course of time, and does it in a way that keeps it timeless, yet still touched with that bit of whimsy that can sometimes prove to be so elusive.