Can I offer Brooks as offering Euro-Stodge these days?  'So What?' overpriced items that have no distinct style to them that you can't get cheaper elsewhere if you want that look.

It's this whole 'lifestyle' thing that depresses me.  Imagine walking into John Simons' shop and finding luggage, spectacle cases, wallets, whatever.  The 'bogus milordism' that simply can't be applied to the UK Ivy dressers, the majority of whom are probably from quite ordinary backgrounds but love quite extraordinary things.  Having said that, perhaps some of the Modernist designers engendered this approach.  Eames?  But the bloody shops have vulgarised and bastardized until the nice, interesting, pleasant associations are totally eradicated.  They've become - in certain places anyway - the high street.  I would no more dream of looking in Lacoste's window than I would, say, Jones The Bootmaker.  Regent Street?  One two three spit two three.

I confess: I really don't recall the time I looked in a high street shop window - for what would be the point?  But even this one-horse town has its trendy menswear shop, selling stuff like Sebago.  I ventured in once.  Nice kid fronting it, owner too cool for school.  A few bits of S/H at the back: Barbour, RL.  No thanks. 
So: looking online (Ebay, sure) - and I'm even more depressed than I was when posting as Andy_B eleven years ago (not long before my first visit to Chiltern Street).  But maybe I was - and am - missing something.  Isn't the 'lifestyle' schtick what JS envisioned in the first place?  Dressing the Young Executive (not 'Mods', not the youth cults that sprang - or crawled - from it). 
'Stodge' is doubtless the wrong word.  I can't yet think of another. 
Chiltern Street is offering shades.  What comes next?