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#1 2016-04-22 15:18:21

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London update

H&H seem to be giving up their smaller shop and moving everything to their "flagship" store at the corner of DoY street. A pity - the smaller shop had been their last resort of untidyness.

Went to H&K to buy a few full-price shirts. They reduced the in store prices from 155 to 135 GBP "because our customers complained and we actually listen to what they have to say". Does anyone remember when they had colours like signal red, royal blue and yellow in their patterns? And very traditional ties with really simplistic patterns (dots, houndsteeth etc)? All gone - they have become full Euro, almost like John Bray RIP. And they have much more button cuff shirts (with cutaway colllar) than before. Still - their "contemporary fit" shirts just suit me perfectly, and I dont have a good alternative.

The new restaurant in Fortnum's Jermyn Street side of the building - ok, I get it. They want to jump on the North Mayfair Brasserie bandwagon. Unfortunately, it is empty most of the time. What a pity, it could have upped J-Street a bit. A bar, that is what is missing - Duke's bar is too far away, and the pub in Babmaes street a disgrace.

Franco's - always populated, for a good reason. What a friendly place, what nice and unpretentious food.

J.J.Fox (not J-Street but still worth mentioning) - yes, Igents galore, but sometimes still a nice place. Nursed a smallish Upman for breakfast today. Bearable.

Cars - where have all the nice cars gone? Besides nondescript Euro boxes, white vans and the occasional Phantom (usually with blacked out windows) you see only black S-class and Audi A8. Even the early Conti GTs which have by now aged nicely disappeared, let alone the proper vintage exotica.


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#2 2016-04-23 03:45:53

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Re: London update

I've been trying to get to London on a business trip as an excuse to go shopping for most of the year, can't even contemplate doing it with the missus and the kids. Still, you can do a lot on the internet these days, as the Dutch stores are finding out, the public have had enough of being ripped off and are en masse ditching them and going online.


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#3 2017-03-25 07:02:41

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Been to London again. Wiltons always a safe bet. And the say "good morning Sir" at lunhctime.


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#4 2018-01-12 12:41:58

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Wiltons again. Just nice. Maybe that is going to be the only place I am going to frequent  in the future. Rules is nice but too far away. Scotts is nice but wring people.


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#5 2018-01-12 23:54:28

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Wring? You said "wring...."?


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#6 2018-01-13 08:54:50

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Yes. The wring sort of people.


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#7 2018-01-18 10:22:07

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#8 2018-01-18 11:14:09

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"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin

 

#9 2018-01-18 11:59:44

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I was in at Taylor of Old Bond Street after Christmas. The staff have no idea what they are selling, but they know they are supposed to sell volume. "Those are 4 for 38" was what a customer near me was told when he picked up a shaving soap. Honestly, we can figure that out by the signs plastered about, and it just gave the place a discount pharmacy feel.

I'm now a Truefitt man.

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#10 2018-01-18 14:27:12

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I now avoid Termin Street besides T&A and the smallC&J shop next to it


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#11 2018-01-18 14:37:52

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Now I can as well, except for the socks and pjs at N&L.

 

#12 2018-01-19 13:39:52

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Isn't Foster & Sons still there?


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#13 2018-01-19 14:42:40

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yes


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#14 2018-01-19 20:08:58

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#15 2018-01-20 09:35:58

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I've had a few of their rtw line shoes, not too bad.

Might stop by in April and see about some bespoke.


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#16 2018-01-20 10:04:17

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What has this generic banter to do with this thread?


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#17 2018-01-22 10:08:52

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#18 2018-01-22 12:09:09

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No, FNB, I am only talking about you, which you like, as you prefer to "get noticed".


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#19 2018-01-22 12:22:19

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#20 2018-02-08 14:07:10

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So, London, again.

SW1 has become a huge amusement park for people working in the construction industry, and a car park for white vans.


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#21 2018-02-12 08:50:36

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Well that's grand, I'm in the construction industry.


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#22 2018-02-12 13:17:28

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Then stop ruining my part of London!!!!!!111


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#23 2018-02-12 13:33:40

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I think your part of London started to become ruined when people began driving velvet covered Maseratis round it.

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#24 2018-02-12 17:46:27

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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare

 

#25 2018-02-12 20:10:38

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"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin

 

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