New Business Name

[shermanator]

Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Assuming John was your grandfather.

John & (Grandmother's Name)

Or have separate signs for men's and women's. Keep the Current name to the left and then put a female oriented name to the right. You'll sometimes see chains with multiple brand stores do this (Tan Jay 'n' Alia; Le Chateau/La Chateau).

Don't pigeon hole yourself into thinking you need one name.

But I like the idea of adding your grandmother's name as it shows female and keeps the nostalgia of ole. Could be some good talking points around town. "Oh did you know that's the name of John's wife, what a nice little touch!"

[pylon]

Originally Posted by spetch

As said, we are in Stettler and no nickname that me or my dad ever heard. I thought about doing something with J=John(grandpa) W=Wayne(dad) R=Ryan(me) but was scared that I might the "John's" branding.

Step 1: Get a liquor license.
Step 2: Sell booze out the back door.
Step 3: Rename business "John Waynes Ryan Cloaks."
Step 4: Profit.

[Da_Chief]

John's Shack
For Him and Her

John's Sack
For him and her

[Fozzie_DeBear]

John's Threads

[To Be Quite Honest]

EpizootiuM

[Winsor_Pilates]

Johnmart

[To Be Quite Honest]

Plantasia

[To Be Quite Honest]

Peter12's preferred stock

[goodyear]

John by John
Chez le Jean
John Fresh

[MelBridgeman]

Mon Pantalon

[iggypop]

John's

[EVERLAST]

John the cross clothier

Came from the closet

[Radio]

A play on Zalmer's suggestion of John's Original Fashions, Original John's Fashions.

[flylock shox]

Dirty Old John's.

Old Johnny's House O'Clothes.

John's Skinwraps and Footboxes.

John's Building Containing Nice Clothes for Men and Women, Which Clothes Can be Purchased for Reasonable Sums of Money.

John's Haberdashery and Clothes for the Fairer Sex.

John's Sex Clothes for the Fair Haberdasher.

Haberdasher? John Barely Knew Her!

Two Gender John's Fashion Emporium.

TarJean.

[Sr. Mints]

I agree that by sticking with just "John's," you're still stuck with with a male clothing store image. But coming from a family who ran a family business until everybody interested had died, I know where you're coming from with regards to the name.

John's Apparel, John's Outerwear, John's Fashionwear, etc. . . . no matter how you slice it, I don't think these types of name differentiate enough from the existing name to be worth a change.

Some options might be:

J. Spetch Apparel, John Spetch Apparel or Spetch Apparel*
John Spetch Trading Company or Spetch Trading Company
Spetch's (maybe drop the apostrophe (Tim Hortons, Loco Lous, Marks . . . I don't know why they do that.)

*There are so many words other than 'apparel' to chose from: Activewear, botique, clothiers, fashionwear, outerwear, fashion. Or nothing at all.

Ultimately you have to go in the direction you're most comfortable going.

$0.02

[3 Justin 3]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

I agree that by sticking with just "John's," you're still stuck with with a male clothing store image. But coming from a family who ran a family business until everybody interested had died, I know where you're coming from with regards to the name.

John's Apparel, John's Outerwear, John's Fashionwear, etc. . . . no matter how you slice it, I don't think these types of name differentiate enough from the existing name to be worth a change.

Some options might be:

J. Spetch Apparel, John Spetch Apparel or Spetch Apparel*
John Spetch Trading Company or Spetch Trading Company
Spetch's (maybe drop the apostrophe (Tim Hortons, Loco Lous, Marks . . . I don't know why they do that.)

*There are so many words other than 'apparel' to chose from: Activewear, botique, clothiers, fashionwear, outerwear, fashion. Or nothing at all.

Ultimately you have to go in the direction you're most comfortable going.

$0.02

I agree with this (and it was mentioned by a couple others as well).

John (surname here). Simple and implies a higher scale clothing store even if it isn't, to imply a "cheaper" vibe I'd include the "Apparel" after John (surname).

[To Be Quite Honest]

How come nobody likes my playful contagious parasitic disease suggestion! That's a keeper!

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

Spetch's (maybe drop the apostrophe (Tim Hortons, Loco Lous, Marks . . . I don't know why they do that.)

Quebec language laws.

[Huntingwhale]

Big John's Big Long
Touched by John
Wearing John
Covered by John