The Added Touch

The Added Touch has been a fixture on West Glades Road in Boca Raton for roughly five decades, which puts its opening somewhere in the mid 1970s and makes it one of the longest continuously running independent boutiques in the city. The shop bills itself as a well edited mix of upscale contemporary women’s fashion and gifts rather than a straight clothing store, and that mix shows up in the layout: racks of tops, dresses, and leggings sit alongside gift pillows, jewelry, handbags, and personalized gift boxes the shop calls Send A Hug, built for customers who want to put together a thoughtful present without assembling it themselves piece by piece. That combination of clothing and curated gifting is part of what has kept the shop relevant across five decades of changing retail trends in Boca Raton.

Two things in particular have become signatures of the shop. The Added Touch carries Brighton accessories, a brand loyal shoppers specifically seek out for charm bracelets, handbags, and jewelry, and the shop also specializes in Strap Its bras, a category that solves a real styling problem for anyone dealing with strapless or unusually cut necklines and struggling to find the right undergarment for it. Between those specialty categories and the broader boutique selection of contemporary clothing and shoes, the shop has built a reputation as a practical stop rather than a purely aspirational one, the kind of place regular customers rely on for both everyday pieces and last minute gifts rather than a single splurge purchase a year.

The Added Touch is open Monday through Saturday from 10 in the morning to 6 in the evening, and Sunday from 10 to 4, tucked into a Glades Road retail strip in West Boca Raton, between a bagel shop and a florist. Because the shop has stayed independently owned across five decades in an industry where small boutiques often do not survive a single decade, it says something about how well the shop has read its regular customer base over the years, adjusting inventory as fashion has shifted while keeping the gift and accessory side of the business steady throughout. For Boca Raton shoppers looking for a boutique that is not tied to a national chain’s buying calendar, and that still carries genuinely current inventory alongside old standbys like Brighton, The Added Touch remains a solid, low key option worth adding to a shopping list along Glades Road, whether the goal is a new outfit or a last minute gift picked up on the way to a dinner party.