Wed 29 Aug 2012
Come One, Come All!
Posted by anaglyph under Daft Advertising, Oops!, Words
[10] Comments
You will remember, dear friends, last month’s look at nutty retail names for fashion shops in which we featured the adjoining hipster outlets ‘Acne’ and ‘Fat’. Today, Cissy Strutt brings to our attention a new contender for the Tethered Cow Ahead award for Best Inappropriate Business Name. In this photograph, we see a potential customer checking a garment for signs of bodily fluids. I have it on good authority that Monica Lewinsky favours this place when visiting Australia.
People. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING????
While we’re on the topic of stupid shop names, cast your minds back, faithful Acowlytes, to 2007 where we featured the unfortunate airport luggage retailer who adopted the catchy moniker of CarriOn as their hip intercapped logo. Well, it seems that someone has pointed out the tragic faux pas, since the CarriOn stores now all feature a somewhat less amusing and far more prosaic nom-de-trade. I flatter myself that they read about their sad mistake right here on TCA.
Wow. I take it Cissy wasn’t shopping in Auckland?
Nope. Town Hall Square, Sydney.
Fantastic.
Sad about CarriOn – it used to brighten up my religious pigrimages to Melbourne.
Well, if you feel the need for a daft retail name fix you can always go buy a frock at Jizz.
Classic! Until now the best I’d seen was a clothing shop called ‘TITOOZ’! I first thought it might sell maternity wear, but I was wrong.
We welcome any and all photographs of amusing shop names, should you have your camera handy…
I’m a bit of a computer illegitimate, how do I get photos to you?
By the way, just returned from Perth, where CARRION is still alive and doing well at the airport, which…. sort of doesn’t….make..sense!?
Do you mean ‘illegitimate’ or ‘illiterate’? I guess I often call my computer a bastard, so perhaps you’re right…
You can send me photos (preferably as jpegs) via reverend(at)tetherdcow.com. I do love photos.
So now we must have a breakaway CARRION/CARRYON franchise – or else the franchisees are too stingy to replace the sign…
I’m still laughing!! I’ve GOT to visit Australia! I’d like to have my picture taken at the JIZZ store with a local ‘Lady of the Night’ and tell my friends how open and modern the Aussies are!!
All the Ladies of the Night shop there, I believe.