Gloucester Road Traders

Hi All 

Just to introduce myself to the members of this forum, I'm Fran and I opened the Fancy Dress shop by the arches, 'Fancy Dress Fanatics' back in July. So I'm pretty new Trader-Wise too!

The company is owned by me, and my fiance Simon is also a Director. We have fancy dress stuff for sale and for hire. The Hire costumes being the specialty. They're mostly high quality theatrical stuff and the collection is growing constantly.

I started this business following a career in Marketing (mostly digital stuff for marketing agencies and the like, working with big brands like Coca Cola, Betfair, Orange etc). I always wanted to own my own business and Fancy Dress runs in the family - my Grandmother is a costumier (she makes most of our hire costumes) and she ran fancy dress hire shops across the country in the 70's and 80's so it was a huge part of my life anyway. Seemed like a natural step and I love it (much more than what I was doing before, easily!).

Thought Bill's idea of sharing a pic was quite a good one, so here's a pic of me too.