Recycle Yokocho is one of three shops selling new, used, ex-rental and obsolete kimono and other traditional clothing. The other two sister shops sell new and breathtakingly expensive kimono. The recycle shop proclaims its wares as “antique,” but “vintage” would be more apt. The prices ...
We set off on a Thursday afternoon from Stansted airport and strolled (a type of walking that can only be achieved without our three children in tow) around the departure lounge. As it would be just us two, we decided to actually plan stuff to do whilst on our mini break and had alre...
Old sheet sets as well as single pillowcases and table linens are popular as wedding presents, Fisher says. As these linens become rarer, linens of more recent vintage take up the slack. Hand-embroidered pillowcases from 1940s America are showing up in antiques shops. Imports include square p...
His mother had been an unsuccessful businesswoman, the manager of tearooms, restaurants, dress shops and at one time the owner of a factory that turned out handbags, painted cigarette boxes and doorstops. Marcia's thrust for independence was not, he knew, the burden of his company but the...
It was impossible to just wander the streets, gaze at the sights, and poke into shops without being mobbed. Inside shops, it was the hard sell; we stopped once just to look at rugs, and left, having seen hundreds, when Leah got a headache from all the pressure to buy. Amber Fort ...
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Jim Wright Underwood has even moved from Denver to Los Angeles to be closer to Randolph in West Hollywood. “Our goal is to buy a house in Huntington Beach in the next year, but we probably won’t move in together until we’re engaged or married,” says Underwood. “As much as I wa...