Word: phelpses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But by and large, Phelps says the clientele the store maintains is a loyal one: "Once they shop here they usually come back and back because there's nothing quite like it in Boston."
Phelps says Hubba Hubba's clientele runs the gamut: "everything from skinheads to gray-haired business men with briefcases." The members of Aerosmith and the Cars are some of the more high-profile characters who frequent this pleasure palace.
Three-year Hubba Hubba employee Marty Starr--who plays Dr. Frankenfurter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the Square each weekend--says that Phelps clearly had a vision in creating Hubba Hubba.
In the way of new fashion, a recent addition to the store's collection has been clothing and 'equipment' made of latex--according to Phelps, latex is what leather used to be. "You can buy leather in K-Mart now, so this is the new leather," she explains.
The store carries all items--from lingerie to spiked boots--in both women's and men's sizes, as it caters to cross-dressers. "Women have been dressing like men for years, but men are not allowed to dress like women," says Phelps, "so we're trying to even it...