The Blues Music Hall of Fame is set to open in May at 421 South Main Street, while the Memphis Music Hall of Fame will be at 126 Beale Street, in a building shared with rock-star outfitter of choice Lansky Bros.
Stuffed goats keep an eye on customers in the high-street vaquera, or cowboy outfitter, where workers from the local car factories blow their pesos on snakeskin boots and $100 Stetsons.
Nearby a sports outfitter and greetings-card shop are both holding closing-down sales, with 75% off.
Each year Dawa Steven Sherpa, an outfitter, digs into his profits and pays 100 rupees ($1) to Sherpas for every kilogram (2.2lb) of garbage that they bring down.
A maverick ex-Socialist politician and former owner of Olympique de Marseilles football club, who has served time in both government and prison, Mr Tapie has long argued he was cheated by Crédit Lyonnais bank when it sold Adidas, a sports outfitter he had owned, in the mid-1990s.
Wilderness expeditions complete with guides, outfitter services, and boat charters have become common, as have travel packages focused on kayaking, mountain biking and climbing, skiing, and rafting.
Alas, a recent victim to rent reviews was Sherry's, a mod outfitter defiantly unchanged since the Sixties, but until last year still selling every item of the costume you would need to ride your Lambretta to Brighton and throw well-formed pebbles at long-haired rockers with sexual-identity problems camouflaged by biker jackets, jailhouse tatts and grease.
Uniqlo, the Japanese clothing giant, is another outfitter of the global scenester.
While it still traded on being the sporting outfitter of choice to the likes of Ernest Hemingway, who bought his shotguns there in the 1940s, its main sales for decades had been an unsexy "hodgepodge" (as Forbes magazine described it) of books, sports equipment, fishing gear and the odd clothing range.
Parkhurst buys his mules from Warren Johnson, an outfitter in Montana, who seasons and steadies them.
D'Angelo just smiled and watched a couple of Filipina hookers shuffle under the awning of an expedition outfitter and guide service.
