This week’s 1 Million Cups at the Kauffman Foundation featured startups pitching a fashion line for tall women and custom-made furniture built with reclaimed materials.

First up was 6-foot-tall Tricia Steffes, who said that she had always struggled to find clothes and shoes that fit her. So she decided to start Bellezze Alte, a company that designs and manufactures clothes and footwear for tall women.

The company’s online boutique offers the Madeline Lubrano Collection, Steffe’s exclusive line of denim active wear and maxi dresses aimed at women 5 foot 8 to 6 foot 4 in height. She said that there are 8 million women in America and 73 million women around the world who were potential customers.

Jeans sold by Bellezze Alte (which means “tall beauties” in Italian) currently sell for $89 to $109.

While “it is more expensive to make longer lengths,” Steffe said, some of the company’s jeans could soon sell for as low as $79 to $99, and yet remain stylish.

“Not only are we going to meet the needs of tall women,” Steffe said, “we’re going to go beyond the ordinary that’s out there.”

Next up was Chris Gorney, founder and lead designer of Second Life Studios, which makes custom furniture, often out of wood from demolished barns, and also redesigns spaces with a variety of reclaimed materials.

“We take old things, we make them new and give them purpose …” Gorney said. “It’s much more than carpentry.”

Gorney said that his company was about “challenging the prefabricated status quo” in both residential and commercial spaces.

“We do a lot of wine cellars and kitchen remodels” in homes, he said.

Second Life Studios has constructed unique tables for such local businesses as PT’s Coffeehouse in the Crossroads Arts District, BRGR in the Kansas City Power & Light District and Boulevard Brewing Company. It also built 65 large tables for the headquarters of Sony Entertainment in New York.

“Let’s not just build a table,” Gorney said. “Let’s build something that’s memorable.”