Local retailers are offering numerous options to fill out your wardrobe for the Republican National Convention, including these limited edition T-shirts that say "RNC Cleveland 2016" and "As Ohio Goes, So Goes the Nation," available at the CLE Clothing Co. on East Fourth St. in Downtown Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In case your suitcases arrived in Cleveland without enough patriotic or partisan goodies, local retailers are offering numerous options to fill out your wardrobe for the Republican National Convention events and afterparties.
First, the Hidden Closet, a Chagrin Falls retailer which last week opened a second, smaller store inside the Arcade at 401 Euclid Ave. in Downtown Cleveland, has unique handbags decorated with embroidered green-and-beige elephants and handmade by a local artist, for $120.
The store also carries red-white-and-blue scarves and necklaces with magnetic clasps.
Next, jewelry artist Cynde Hujarski of Aurora has created Ohio-shaped stainless steel, brass, and copper medallions stamped with "2016 RNC" and a star for Cleveland, available as a necklace for $29, or as a keychain for $12.
Hujarski learned how to make jewelry at Kent State and creates her designs using 35 mm film negatives. Her designs are available online at cyndehdesigns.com or at CLE Clothing Co., 342 Euclid Ave. The 2016 RNC design is also available at Fra Angelica Gallery & Studio in the 5th Street Arcades, 530 Euclid Ave.
CLE Clothing Co. is also selling two limited-edition RNC T-shirts: RNC Cleveland 2016, and "As Ohio Goes, So Goes The Nation."
Cleveland Museum of Natural History's vote triceratops T-shirt The gift shop at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History at 1 Wade Oval Dr. in University Circle has a bipartisan T-shirt that every Ohioan can agree on: The gray shirts say "VOTE" in capital letters, with empty boxes next to a donkey and an elephant, and checked box next to the triceratops.
They cost $24.99 each or $12 with the purchase of another item from the gift shop.
Malley's Chocolates, with 20 retail stores and online sales at malleys.com, has three RNC-themed items, available starting Monday, July 18: The Presidential Gift Box contains: a 4-ounce bag of Gummi Bears, a 4-ounce bag of Gummi Fish, two Malley's Peanut Butter Cups, two milk chocolate-covered pretzels, and one Malley Oh! chocolate-covered sandwich cookie, for $12.
The Clevelander includes five 1.75-ounce chocolate bars in a decorative RNC box: One each of Chocolate Crunch, Dark Chocolate, Chocolate Almond, Dark Chocolate Pretzel Crunch, and Milk Chocolate Pretzel Crunch, for $10.
The Winning Ticket contains a single 6-ounce Pretzelnormous is a 6-ounce milk chocolate bar with bits of broken salted pretzels, packaged in an RNC box with pictures of presidential campaign buttons, including "Donald Trump 2000," for $8.
The Cleveland 2016 Host Committee has a limited selection of RNC-related merchandise at store.2016cle.com , from $20 T-shirts, $25 polo shirts, and $16 aprons to $1 balloons, $1.25 buttons, and $1.50 water bottles.
That's all in addition to the abundance of Cleveland and Cavaliers-themed hats, clothing, pennants, and baby onesies that are still available in area souvenir shops.