Novelty Shop Owner Gifts

"Forty years in this business and you suddenly decide you don't like gimmicky?"

'Hello Novelty Shop. About that rubber knife you sold me.'

Thank you for calling ace novelty..and remember, think outside the box!

"Freudian, Jungian, Adlerian – none of it compares to retail therapy."

Toadstools

"This is a clever little shop. It makes you think it would be fun to own a lamp."

Pashminas are sooo noughties!

"Oh to be young and in love and wear things cut on the bias."

'They've certainly got designs on your purse!'

"So, do you want balls that only go up, or ones that only go down?"

Sale.

Bob thinks his new neighbor may be bad for business.

"I feel there's a whole culture around mules."

"If there's any one lesson we've learned from the eighties, it's how to shop!"

'I'll take it!'

"Of course, lots of women are just going bare-headed."

"Do you have any knitting patterns for somebody who can only count to five?"

Honesty in retail

'I think there's been some mistake...'

Online Shopping.

Family heirlooms that will never make it onto the mantelpiece.

It was a good chance to get together and talk shop.

Woman uses an ATM with buttons for: Grocery, Leverage Buyout, Start Up Capital, Shop Till You Drop.

Vintage Dresses: Your Frock Exchange

A Lady Out Shopping.

"I'm looking for something that says country-but-only-an-hour-and-a-half-drive-from-the-city."

Falloon's Menswear. Where it's always brown trouser time.

'It's something to do with a Microsoft copyright infringement.'

'Does any of your bread just have bread in it?'

'There's no fear of him making a Frankenstein's Monster out of this is there?'

"They put nipples on the mannequins so you'll look at the stupid sweaters. Duh!"

"I wonder what this was for."

'Just look'in'

Shoe Repair and Pest Control.

As models become skinnier, so do the mannequins.