re-consideration

I was showing someone round East London a little bit, and they wanted to go to "the cool retro vintage stores" around the Brick Lane/Commercial St area.

I kind of object to these on the grounds that they're like charity shops, but they negate the 2 most important benefits of charity shops:

a) they're expensive!
b) they only sell all the same stuff that everyone in Shoreditch wears all the time, so you never find the truly wacky gear that you get in a suburb/small town charity shop. So you don't get the that uniqueness/stand out factor that I'd want from charity shop gear.





Anyway the point is I found this nice jacket/jeans range in the Laden Galleries, a store that sells clothing from a range of independent designers (103 Brick Lane). It's exactly the kind of thing I'd want to make for myself if I had more talent and had been thinking too much about skulls. For some reason, because they're from a small independent label, I felt the price (jacket £50) was ok, and didn't get cross/indignant like I normally do about 'designer' clothes prices. Didn't buy though.