Fancy-Pants

Everybody knows February is the month for love and we are giving you all the feels with (in our opinion) the most swoon-worthy quote for your perfect Valentine’s Day date.   It’s been fun trawling through our favourite sites and it’s not been easy finding ‘the one’ – there are so many funny, moving, romantic, traditional stories and quotes, both cheeky and traditional.  Whatever your love outlook, we all agreed ‘less is indeed more’  – so (drum roll please) our all time winner for sheer simplicity is:

‘Where there is love, there is life’ – Mahatma Gandhi

In the last few months we’ve all seen and shown love in many different ways.  Our love for the NHS with rainbows, the inspiring Captain Sir Tom Moore, our key workers keeping our cupboards and shelves stocked and deliveries met, home-schooling our children and missing our teachers and scholars.  Last but not least though, our fabulous Publicans, the institution of the good old fashioned pub.  The meeting place for all manner of celebrations with our nearest and dearest family and friends. Oh how we’ve missed you!!  Well this Valentine’s day might be a little different, but as the saying goes ‘home is where the heart is’, so with this in mind we wish you all a fabulously HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY 2021.  May all our homes be filled with love and hugs – until we can freely wrap our arms around each other again.

It’s not too late for us here at H.O.P.E to deliver your perfect Valentines gift and personalised card to your loved one.  Drop us a note on checkout and we will help you spread the love!

And so, it’s rapidly approaching that time when tricks and treats become tricks or treats – HALLOWEEN!

We have everything to make your night go with a screeeeeeeeeeam! If it’s a bit of fake blood you’re after then we are dripping in it. Zombies? It’s like the night of the living dead round here we have so many costumes and accessories – little zombies or big zombies we’ve got them all. We’ve bats and rats, witches and devils and of course those old Halloween favourite’s, Ghosts and Ghoulies!

It’s going to be a different Halloween this year so let’s make it that little bit more special, from a bit of make up to a complete make over we’ve got the lot.

It’s incredible to think that we’ve all been in lock-down for over six weeks now and we send you and your loved ones our warmest wishes. We warmly invite customers to keep in touch through our social media channels, www.facebook.com/H.O.P.ERetail, www.instagram.com/h.o.p.e_retail. We’d love to see or hear what you’ve been up to. Although we feel we’ve got a rather substantial ‘dressing-up box’ here at Fancy-Pants, we love seeing your homemade creations and themes, so tag away folks.

Through our blog and social media we have shared with you some of the delights of our newest products in our gift and homeware collections, but we’re most excited about our ever evolving fancy dress, accessories and vintage range.

We’ve had great fun supporting Rhythm Time (Cheshire) too. They have taken their pre-school music classes online and every Tuesday morning Frances has done a live video stream. Not wearing her statement Rhythm Time sunshine yellow t-shirt though, oh no, in fancy dress costume of course! Each week Frances has been modelling one of our costumes to delight her students while delivering Birthday messages. This week we were greeted by Alice in Wonderland classic, ‘The Queen of Hearts’, who was absolutely not going to share her tarts! It’s anyone’s guess what she’ll wear next week?

If there’s anything in particular that you’d like to see Frances try, any special Birthday requests perhaps, or you’d like to know more about our costumes, drop us an e-mail to wi**@ho********.uk.

We do not know when we’ll be reopening our doors, but our online store is still operating. We have extended our discount code HOPE5 until at least the end of May 2020. We continue to offer free delivery within our local ST7 postcode for orders over £15 and a 100% non-contact click and collect service too. We are mindful of all government guidelines and can guarantee we are following all recommended measures to ensure our customers safety comes first.

For now though, we wish you all well and look forward to seeing you again very soon we hope.