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Naming Unrelated Businesses Articles of Clothing
EmmettRedd
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2011/09/08 - 3:07pm

Yesterday, I ate at the El Sombrero restaurant in St. Robert, Missouri. In Springfield, we have a chain of alcoholic beverage stores where the stores are called, "Brown Derby". (BTW, BassPro Shops started as a few fishing lures in Brown Derby.)

Do you know of any businesses which are not clothing stores that are named after articles of clothing?

Emmett

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2011/09/09 - 2:52am

There used to be a casino in Vegas called the Silver Slipper.

EmmettRedd
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2011/09/10 - 5:57pm

I have since my first post remembered that there was a bar in Rolla, Missouri, named "The Top Hat Lounge".

Emmett

Ron Draney
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2011/09/10 - 9:59pm

Goes the other way too. The Tuxedo Lounge in New York lent its name to an entire style of dress.

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2011/09/21 - 10:35am

In Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a Hooters-style establishment called the Twisted Kilt, which features leggy women as waitresses in short skirts and revealing blouses. Not that I have ever personally witnessed this.

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2015/08/05 - 1:08pm

There's a place called the Tilted Kilt, but I wouldn't say it has much in common with Hooters.  The Twisted Kilt is a Celtic bar, while Hooters is an owl-lover's restaurant.  And it's not just Fort Wayne; there are 100 units open, with 20 in process of opening; the first one was in Vegas..

 This is how Kilt girls are dressed

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\while this is how Hooters girls are dressed.

Obviously, the girls are much more attractive at one place rather than the other.  Which pplace?  Why, the one you're currently patronizing, of course!

I've never been to either chain, but obviously, I need to do further research.  The Hooters in Fort Wayne burned down in 2013, so I guess I shall have to research the Kilt girls twice as hard.

I'm not the Kilt counts as a business named after an unrelated article of clothing.  There seems to be a reason why the customer's Kilt is tilted.

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