You Can't Beat a Brazen Hussy
While I was walking along The Broadway at Leigh recently, I noticed again a shop which over the years has always made me chuckle very time I see it.
It’s a shop selling ladies’ undergarments of a flamboyant and ostentatious nature, and it goes by the singularly appropriate name of “Brazen Hussy”.
It set me thinking about other good names for shops that I have noticed.
In Loughborough, there’s a ladies’ underwear shop named “Brief Encounter”, and there’s also a shop at Oakham with the same name. There must be something eccentric about selling this sort of stuff, because at Uppingham a similar emporium is called “Dessous”.
The most outlandish shop name I have ever come across is also in Loughborough. It’s a record shop, and it’s named “The Left Legged Pineapple”.
But the prize for a creative name that clearly has a relevance to its merchandise comes from the Isle of Thanet in Kent.
While I was managing two cinemas at Ramsgate, I published a monthly “What’s On” programme. This was supported by local advertising.
One of the advertisers was a shop which sold hosiery – socks, stockings, tights etc. It was called “The Happy Centipede”.
If you know of any good examples of this sort of thing, I’ll be really pleased to hear about them!
Posted by colin on Tuesday 1st November, 2005 at 10:52am