About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. A regular dropped by Nu Trend one morning to discover an old-fashioned hatbox on the counter. Curious, he opened it and found… something unexpected. Inside was a dusty top hat, clearly from another era. The man grinned, thinking it might fetch a pretty penny online. Just then, a delivery driver knocked, startling him—and the hat fell off the counter, landing with a thud that echoed through the empty store. Everyone within earshot burst into laughter.
2. A little girl skipped into Nu Trend with her mother’s handbag in tow. Suddenly, she stopped dead in her tracks, eyes wide as she pointed at something on the counter. ‘Mom,’ she whispered, ‘what’s that?’ The mother leaned over and saw a small, misplaced button nestled among the shirts. She smiled, realizing it was just an ordinary day at Nu Trend. ‘Oh, honey,’ she said gently, ‘that’s just a button.’ The little girl nodded solemnly, then giggled and ran off to join her friends outside. As they left, the mother turned back to see the owner, who winked and muttered under his breath, ‘Another day, another mystery solved.’
3. A delivery driver pulled up outside Nu Trend one afternoon and noticed something odd: a mysterious package wrapped in brown paper sat on the steps. The delivery driver picked it up, curious but cautious. Inside was an old umbrella with a note: 'For your driest clean!' Turned out, it belonged to a neighbor who’d left it there years ago. Now everyone jokes that Nu Trend has a time machine for lost items.
4. In the early hours of a Sunday morning, when most dry cleaners were quiet as church mice, someone left a mysterious package wrapped in brown paper at Nu Trend's doorstep. Inside was an old umbrella with a note scribbled on torn envelope paper: ‘Please fix this for my wife—she loves it.’ The staff chuckled and fixed it up, only to discover that it opened into a tiny umbrella-shaped hat. Word spread, and soon neighbors started leaving strange items: a vintage fan, an antique pocket watch, even a dancing bear on a string. It turned out to be the owner’s quirky way of saying, ‘Welcome to our neighborhood!’