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Our Window is Broken but not our Spirit

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A little while ago, Bridie saw this photograph in the archive section of the Times Newspaper. We were quietly happy to see something almost exactly like our shop shutters, which we carefully designed with our lovely Polish builder Adam when we restored the shop front last November. The photograph, taken in London in the middle of the 1940 Blitz, sums up something rather special, I think.  And we will be stocking Men’s Half Hose quite soon.

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