Chris_H wrote:

'The Circuit' a leisurely stroll around central London stopping at shops of interest.

Any additions to the Circuit very welcome

Mr Eris will surely disapprove of this thread...... Surely (wink)

Last edited by IvyLeagueOfGentlemen (2009-02-06 04:27:45)

More Bass for your buck:

http://www.discount-shoe-sales.com/pages/about_us.html

Edit: Burrows was 'Graduate' in the 80's...

Last edited by Russell_Street (2009-02-06 05:21:22)

IvyLeagueOfGentlemen wrote:

Russell_Street wrote:

Edit: Burrows was 'Graduate' in the 80's...

Are you sure? I thought Graduate was a few doors down from Burrows back in the day?

I'm pretty certain the restaurant next door took over the property after Graduate vacated and extended their restaurant to make it bigger..

As you are pretty certain I bet you're right! I only ever bought Burlingtons from Grad. or Burrows.

Thanks for the Intel.

Chris_H wrote:

'The Circuit' a leisurely stroll around central London stopping at shops of interest.

Lately we've had mention of John Ruston, American Classis, Interstate and S. Krantz & Sons.


Another one for the mix...... T. Burrows in James Street.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v481/ … urrows.jpg

Quote:
Specialising in classic menswear with enduring English style, T Burrows was founded in 1983 by Michael Gennoe and Allan Murray, two veterans of London fashion who first worked together at the Kings Road’s legendary 1960's Ivy League emporium, Village Gate.


http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1185/28311.php


Any additions to the Circuit very welcome

T.Burrows was always great for classic Breton boatneck jerseys (Armor Lux and Saint James).I still wear a few of the boatnecks i bought from there about five or six years back from the nice Scottish Man (Allan Murray i presume?).They also sold soft shoulder traditional classic cotton French artisan style(?) work jackets which were also quite cool.

Russell_Street wrote:

Nearby was/is Fifth Avenue Shoes where discontinued and discounted Bass were to be found:

The facade of the Fifth Avenue shop has a real magnetic charm to it imo. There's a little shoe repair shop on City Road that also sells cheap Bass, Loakes, et al. It's called City Cobbler, & it's next door to the Shepherdess Cafe which is at the Moorfields end of City Road. Well worth a butchers if you're in the vicinity....

^ Kingstonian - Any action at 'Pulse' in Kingston these days? Is even still going? They had Baracuta back in the 80's & a few other bits.

Thanks -

There is/was that daft 'The Highlands' shop on Regent's Street which has/had Sebago & they used to have Dexters old stock long after nowhere else in town did.

Liberty used to be good for Repp ties & knits. It's a bit of a twat-fest now tho'.

Under what was Country Casuals in the 80's was the Danish tourist board who had a cafe serving those cool Danish open sandwiches that you used to get in that place in Manchester in that arcade near St. Anne's Square - The Royal Exchange? Can't remember.

The Piazza Cafe up near the BBC looked ugly but had very good Cappuccinos (Cappuccini?) & Cream Cheese Salad sandwiches going back a while and right nearby was a place which had all those huge magazines like L'uomo Vogue...

The Bonbonniere was a nice Italian cafe in Woodstock St. just across from the Spreadeagle pub - A matchboard lined cafe in the front and a restaurant in the rear behind a curtain.

There was a little cinema which was good for foreign films in the Swiss Center block too - The door was on Wardour Street & you had to get a lift up to the studios (2?) amongst all the offices upstairs. Long gone now.

Dobells is a blur now as is the name of that mag. shop. Soho was best for mags on Old Compton Street... American GQ in '87 was great as were the Italian copies of Ivy in the Italian Mags...

Then there were all the cafes - What were all their names? Having a Gaggia was make or break. There was one off Hanover Square where I can remember siting with a pile of four new Jimmy Smith LPs reading the sleeve notes & ignoring everybody else. I'd clocked it had a Gaggia through the window & strolled in on spec. A dark wood interior...

Back to Manchester  - There was a cafe by Kendals which had a hairdresser's downstrairs where we'd have a frothy coffee when up there. No idea of the name. We'd go to Robinson's Records up there too over the bridge towards Salford & Piccadilly Records too in that spooky deserted shopping precinct. Clubbing was mainly Gay with The Banshee or Hacienda as diversions for drugs...

A medley of Smedleys?  Top!

Thanks for that, Kingstonian.

The West End was more the home of the Sandwich or Coffee bar I think, rather than the kosher Caff (with notable exceptions to that generalisation). And talking of Kosher - What about the Salt Beef place on Windmill Street with that lovely big in-yer-face Star of David in the window? We used to love hanging out in there all smooth & neat in our Ivy finest hoping to get photographed... Especially after a fresh haircrop when certain of us looked a little like sussed Skins... Great iconoclastic style!

Saturdays were spent cafe & shop hopping during the day then we'd dump our bags at mine & maybe iron something new we'd got & change into it for whatever pub/bar/club hopping we'd get upto in the evening.
I never really liked the pubs that much even though we mainly stuck to Gay ones (which are generally cooler places), but the clubs were always fun - Gaz's Rockin' Blues being probably my favourite, although I've spent more time in Heaven than really makes sense for a straight bloke. Some nights after clubbing we'd go on to The Scala in Kings Cross for their allnighters and sit amongst the dope smoke watching whatever films were their theme for the night. Then breakfast in a railway station place just to people watch & then we'd split up & crash.

I talk like we were an army sometimes, but in reality there was just four of us: Me & Grey & Paddy & Big Jim.    'Appy days!

j.

Seersucker suit & Patch Madras jacket in JS...

Steppin' Out from my gaff..

Onto the Grays Inn Road & you have Condor (if you like that sort of thing..) further up you have Costas.

Then over to..

Lambs Conduit Street
That fantastic window of Connock & Lockie "American Specialite"
Pokit for Sanders playboys at the same price as everywhere else..
Folk for more avant-garde stuff
Oliver Spencer for a simillar take and price range to Albam.
Bella Pasta

Head west and hit the no-name menswear shop on the Holborn end of Sicilian Avenue. The window reminds me of the pictures of the ones John S did for Cecil Gee.
It's only a hop-skip-jump to Covent Garden and we-know-who.. On to Endell street.. Cathy likes Blackout II for fantastic 50's vintage womenswear, the menswear veers massivly toward the rockabilly thing though..
Arthur Beale's on Shaftsbury Av for St James matador shirts & Guernsey jumpers (once you've bought one, you'll never need another)
Monmouth st for coffee & in the evenings the french hospital has a great bar,
Earlham street for the new place I dont know the name of,
into soho.. I could go on..