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The Parlous State of BRITISH HIGH STREET FASHION

20:16 / 24.06.07

It is the summer, and this means that I am going to stand around squinting like some kind of moron unless I buy some sunglasses quite soon. However! I have been to Topshop. I have been to H&M. I have been to Dorothy Perkins, and I cannot find a SINGLE PAIR of sunglasses that I want to wear. Most of them are bigger than my actual face. When I am at work in my office job I can wear clothes well within the confines of a dress code that indicate quite unambivalently that I enjoy the music of MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE and the films of TIM BURTON. Why can I not convey such a message in the context of SUMMERTIME BEACH FUN? Where should I be shopping, that I am not?

20:33 / 24.06.07

At the risk of sounding HOPELESSLY OUT OF TOUCH, how about Camden Market?

If you can get through THE HORDES, that is.

21:11 / 24.06.07

That is actually an EXCELLENT IDEA. As well as fighting hordes it will require me to use the NORTHERN LINE, but it might well be worth it for a pair of sunglasses I want and will like.

Tryphena Absent

12:07 / 25.06.07

You could get the BUS, which is really easy and quite PLEASANT if you have some time to spare!

14:20 / 25.06.07

Or Spitalfields Market has splendid ones too. I feel like my letters are too small.

10:13 / 26.06.07

Or perhaps if you are glutton for punishment you take the HAMMERSMITH & CITY LINE to Ladbroke grove and have browse round Portobello Road market on a saturday....

11:16 / 26.06.07

What is the OUTCOME of this? Have the glasses been FOUND?