I am always a sucker for chocolate brown, so a jacket from Fenchurch whose colour is described as “Death By Choc” is always going to catch the eye.
The M Lussan 2 Moleskin Jacket looks great, and in stock in their Covent Garden shop at £100.
As previously mentioned here, fashion watches can be disaster area of gimickry and tat; however Topman’s Limited Edition range of watches are surprisingly good. They all follow a retro theme, but are authentic enough to pass muster (at first glance at least) as some genuine piece you picked up on eBay. Plus they’re nicely priced around the £35 mark.
superfuture is a site which lists the top shops, bars and hotels in cities like London, New York and Amsterdam…
Lyle and Scott Vintage, a slimmer fit range from Lyle & Scott (go one size up) is very popular at the moment, frequently sported by the likes of the curly haired twat off popworld on T4 (but don’t let that put you off). They have V-neck jumpers (the V shows a little too much cleavage for my liking), polo shirts and this seasons Val Doonican trend, cardigans.
It is stocked by amongst the usual suspects like Urban Outfitters, “Utter Nutter” in Romford, a shop with one of the worst names of all time but which amazingly does not stock “Ralphy” shirts and the like, but has a good range including Franklin Marshall and Paul Frank.
There seem to be a lot of satisfied customers of the Merkur Futur Brushed Steel Razor. The replacement blades are much cheaper than more popular brands too…
UPDATE: I have one now, and it really is a superb shave – and the online service I received from Mankind was superb.
Everywhere seems to be buying “gilets” at the moment.
I got a chocolate brown one from Esprit, but H&M, Duffer, Energie, etc are all selling them.
By the way, they’re not really called gilets – they’re bodywarmers.
Jake’s on Berwick Street Soho is currently selling in addition to their usual eponymous t-shirts and Penguin polo shirts some cashmere jumpers by Burlington. They have some nice diamond styles in, which are a little expensive. Unfortunately Burlington appear to be a company without a net presence.
To return to Uniqlo (the stylish man’s Gap), they have a particularly nice style of jeans at the moment, at an incredibly cheap £20. The “one wash classic fit” is a dark indigo in a medium fit and come in a Gap-style variety of lengths (ie – lengths go up in 1″ intervals).
They also have a selection of cashmere jumpers, v-neck & crew neck in a variety of colours at £59 – probably the cheapest cashmere jumper you’ll find, but they’re not particularly interesting.
A recent trip to Copenhagen brought back 2 purchases.
a gangster-esque coat from Zara, and a jumper from Esprit (previously only notable for having about 1000 stores in Singapore).
Denmark is a very expensive place to shop, and pan-European shops like Esprit, which have prices in all the major currencies on the tickets illustrate this (an £8 Danish premium on the jumper).
Nigel Cabourn designs rugged clothes inspired by mountaineers and explorers of yore (think sepia toned photos of men in Antartica raising the union jack while puffing on a pipe). His own brand is rather high end price-wise, but Debenhams have snuck in there and persuaded him to do a diffusion line. There’s some nice anoraks, cord trousers and duffle coats, but I’m not sure about the jumpers.
Available in Debenhams from September.