In our 7 Questions series, we ask successful women rapid-fire questions that give us a glimpse into their hearts, minds, and wardrobes. For this week’s feature, we spoke with Erin Carpenter, the founder of inclusive bodywear brand Nude Barre.

Erin didn’t always plan to become an entrepreneur, but the idea for Nude Barre has been with her since an early age. As a dancer, she was always required to have “nude-toned” tights, underwear, and dance shoes for her classes and performances. But most of the time, the only “nude” tone those products came in was beige, so Erin had to dye her tights and pat makeup onto her clothes and shoes to match her skin. Once, when she was a teenager, she wore her tights as-purchased, without dyeing them, and was kicked out of class because the “nude” color didn’t match her skin tone. Her experience was not unique: This lack of inclusivity was (and largely still is) standard across the dance and fashion industries.

As a teen, Erin often wondered why brands didn’t make options for other skin tones and thought that more shades of tights and undergarments would appear in the market as time went on—but they never did. So she took matters into her own hands. After completing extensive market research, and with the enthusiastic encouragement of her parents, Erin founded Nude Barre in 2009 to fight the colorism she’d experienced from the fashion industry for her entire life.