One of my favorite professors was English and while teaching he liked to remind us that “the British, and hence the better, rule” was [insert a property rights law that has been wholly useless in my career, except when George Clooney referenced it in The Descendants and finally (finally!) my law degree came in handy].
An admitted anglophile I think most everything the Brits do is better, including, as it turns out, protesting.
Via
This past Monday, staffers at the magazine CHAP protested the opening of an Abercrombie + Fitch store in Saville Row, London, the area home to bespoke tailoring in England for more than 200 years.
Did they protest the bawdy ads? The threat of hordes of tourists cluttering up the pavements in “their excitement at the thought of buying a ladies’ T-shirt saying ‘Who Needs a Brain When You’ve Got These?’” Or, as one tailor simply put it, a “chain store selling crappy clothes to ghastly people”?
Yeah. Basically.
And I love it, because ever since I was a somewhat chubby 13-year-old who didn’t look like any of the waifs working at A&F, I have felt the store could use some classing up.
Get the full story here: http://www.styleite.com/media/abercrombie-fitch-savile-row/#9
p.s. My personal fav place to shop in London is on the KR. Ted Baker, Harvest, Jo Malone, Oh my! (For your next trip, a handy-dandy street guides via Street Sensation! available here: http://www.streetsensation.co.uk/kingsrd/kr_intro.htm).
