SHI: Showing the world you are Single, Happy and Interested
Picture this:
You are at a great bar with your friends. You guys are having drinks and enjoying appetizers. It’s happy hour so the place is full of people who are also having drinks and appetizers and unwinding after work. You look up and catch eyes with an attractive stranger. You smile shyly and look away. Curious, you look over at the stranger again and catch eyes again. You smile again and the stranger gets up and walks over to you. You two talk and hit it off. Just as you’re about to mention exchanging phone numbers, you look down and notice a wedding ring. Your heart sinks because this new potential love connection has already connected to someone else.
Have this ever happened to you? Well there’s an Australia-based company that hopes to help stop things like that from happening. The company is called SHI Symbol International. SHI (pronounced shy) is a symbol for single people. SHI is an acronym that means “Single, Happy and Interested”. The SHI symbol was created by intertwining the Mars/Venus gender symbols. It includes single people that are both heterosexual and homosexual so anyone who is single can wear the SHI symbol and let the world know that they are indeed “Single, Happy and Interested”.
I spoke with Jan Pagonis, one of the founders of SHI Symbol International and she gave me some additional insight into this cool new product.
“We are certainly new and different-SHI Symbol is a Universal Meeting People tool—a symbol to say just that, that can be used or worn 24/7 anywhere, any time,” said Pagonis.
With this idea in mind, Pagonis and her business partner, Christine Ezekiel, decided that the best way to ensure that people would be able to fully experience the 24/7 nature of the SHI Symbol was to create a jewelry line.
“We wanted to create something that was stylish, trendy, fashionable and very functionable. Hence, jewelry was our first pick,” said Pagonis.
Since its initial creation in February 2007, the SHI product line has expanded to include clothing and other accessories like t-shirts, earrings, arm bands, bracelets and lapel pins. The prices of the different pieces can range from the very affordable to the more luxurious to fit every budget.
“SHI Symbol merchandise is now available via the net worldwide with specific sites for the US, UK and Australia,” said Pagonis.
If you’d like to incorporate the SHI symbol into your wardrobe, visit their US website at
www.shisymbol.com