As more people shop online the retail sector in the UK is having to adapt. I wonder if this trend is reflected in the shops around Barons Court station?
Fellow Irishman, blogger and all-round good chap, Tim, aka Lord Belmont, reported recently on a Christmas shopping expedition to Molton Brown. He notes that MB is now By Appointment. What would I have done in his buffed brogues if Her Majesty had come into the shop?
My late father-in-law favoured High Dry Toast. Norman Murphy, an authority on P G Wodehouse and much else besides, likes Kendal Brown. I have just ordered some Seville. From 1720 until 1981 they could all be purchased at Fribourg and Treyer’s shop in the Haymarket.
Men don’t wear ties and shops don’t sell them. Having left home without one and needing neckwear to visit my club, I popped into Uniqlo and American Apparel on Kensington High Street – no cigar. There was no branch of T M Lewin handy so, reluctantly, I went into TK Maxx.