Two labels are confirmed here, and both point the same direction. Ashley Lauren and Ava Presley are heavy-glamour houses — beading, corsetry, stones, long trains, the kind of dress built to hold a stage light. Ava Presley’s own materials describe its dresses as made for prom, pageants, homecoming and formal galas, and that crossover is the useful thing to know before driving over. A shop stocking these two is not stocking quiet slip dresses. If the gown you have in mind is simple and unbeaded, this may not be your first stop. If you want something loud on purpose, it is.
Beyond those two brands, the public record on this store is thin. There is no website on file. The shop’s presence is on Instagram and Facebook, both under the store name, and that is where new arrivals surface rather than on a stock page you can browse at midnight. It also shares a name with a well-known NFL kicker, which means a plain search turns up football and nothing else. The phone number is the reliable channel: (864) 238-6726. Call for hours, for whether they take walk-ins, and for the suite number.
The address is a shared building, not a storefront on a strip
1322 East Washington Street is a multi-tenant building with lettered suites and a lower level, occupied by several unrelated businesses. That matters on arrival: you are looking for a suite, not a sign visible from the road. It also sets the tone of the trip. This is the block just east of downtown Greenville, near the Cleveland Park side of town, close enough to Main Street that the visit can fold into a downtown afternoon. It is not the Woodruff Road corridor, and the drive does not feel like mall shopping.
Who is within an easy drive
Greenville County Schools puts a dense cluster of high schools inside a short radius of this address, and the Upstate of South Carolina is compact enough that most of them are a twenty-minute problem at worst:
- Greenville Senior High Academy, downtown, the closest of any of them
- J. L. Mann and Christ Church Episcopal School, south and east toward Pelham
- Wade Hampton and Eastside, up the Wade Hampton Boulevard side
- Carolina and Southside, on the south end of the city
- Mauldin, Hillcrest and Riverside, out toward Simpsonville and Greer
Upstate proms run in the spring, and dress shopping in this market starts well before the tickets go on sale, because a small two-label shop holds a short rack rather than a warehouse. Sizes and colorways move and are not restocked forever.
What is not verifiable here: opening year, price band, appointment policy, alterations, and whether the shop keeps a school registry to prevent duplicate gowns. Those are all worth asking about on the phone before the drive, and none of them should be assumed from a listing.