The store is upstairs. North Pinellas County shoppers looking for Suite 2022 should know that the mall’s own directory puts AB2B Boutique “on the second level near Dillard’s,” which means parking at the Dillard’s end of the lot and taking the escalator up rather than hunting the length of a 1.2-million-square-foot mall.
Countryside High School sits about a mile east of that parking lot, at 3000 State Road 580 — the same road the mall fronts, in the same 33761 ZIP code. Roughly 1,700 Cougars go to school within sight of the store’s trade area, and Palm Harbor University High, Dunedin, East Lake, Clearwater and Tarpon Springs high schools are all a short run up or down US 19.
What is actually on the racks
Four prom labels are confirmed through the designers’ own retailer locators:
- Ava Presley
- Clarisse
- Jessica Angel
- Johnathan Kayne
That is glitter-jersey, corset-bodice, pageant-adjacent territory rather than quiet department-store formal. Worth knowing before the drive: this is not a prom-only shop. The mall directory lists bridal gowns, veils, bridesmaids, mothers’ and flower girl dresses, evening gowns, sweet sixteen and quince dresses, bat mitzvah and pageant gowns, military ball gowns, and tuxedos and suits for rental or purchase. Prom is one season inside a year-round formalwear business, and the store markets its quince and dama dresses in Spanish as well as English.
The tuxedo side is the practical argument for the trip. A couple can settle the dress and the rental in the same room on the same afternoon, and the store lists rentals from boys’ size 3 through big and tall, which covers a younger brother in the same visit. On the dress side the store states prom sizing from 000 to 28, bridal from 2 to 26, and quince gowns from 00 to 20 with larger sizes available to order.
Getting there, and the two things to settle first
US 19 through this stretch is a limited-access freeway, not a signalized highway — the 2014 work carried the freeway from Sunset Point Road north to the older elevated section over Countryside Boulevard and State Road 580. Families coming from Tampa, Largo or St. Petersburg exit at SR 580 or Countryside Boulevard and are in the lot in under a minute. There is no left turn across six lanes to worry about.
Store hours run 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. The mall itself stays open until 8, so a 7:15 arrival gets a closed door. Appointments are booked by phone or text at (813) 406-0403, and the store asks shoppers to schedule ahead.
The policy matters more than the hours: AB2B states that all sales are final, with no refunds, and that customers read and sign a store policy agreement before purchase. For a special-order gown that is standard in this trade, but it should be understood before a card comes out, not after.
For anyone comparing designer inventory across more than one store, the other Pinellas options are Nikki’s Glitz & Glam farther north on US 19 in Palm Harbor and Oh My Gowns on West Bay Drive in Largo. The mall setting gives AB2B something those cannot: Dillard’s and Macy’s formal racks in the same building, plus the indoor ice rink, the twelve-screen theater and the restaurant row for whoever came along and is done shopping.
One naming note, since it causes confusion in searches and on receipts: AB2B Boutique and All Brides 2 Be are the same store at the same address.