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  • 2 weeks later...

malumbu Wrote:

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> I don't know its name, but in the early 90s it

> sold cut-price Levis, did tailoring, and had a

> stack of porn mags in the back. Somewhere off

> Lordship Lane. Black middle aged gent who ran it,

> said it was a good distraction for blokes out

> shopping with their other halves.

>

> Meanwhile do we have any local shops (or wider)

> with funny names to compete with: (I've visited

> the boutique in France, but it doesn't quite live

> up to its name)

>

> http://www.hifiwigwam.com/archive/index.php/t-1802

> 2.html



The shop was called FOSTERS and, yes, I felt very uncomfortable there too but the Levis were so darn cheap. The Levis were 'seconds' though with the red tabs cut off. You could always stitch a complete red tab from your worn out 'first Levis onto the seconds and voila: a normal looking pair for less than half the price ! Luckily, I fit standard Levis so the guy never had to do any alterations (phew !) but I always thoroughly had the jeans washed returning home ! I daren't touch anything in that back room, mind ...

  • 3 weeks later...

malumbu Wrote:

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> I don't know its name, but in the early 90s it

> sold cut-price Levis, did tailoring, and had a

> stack of porn mags in the back. Somewhere off

> Lordship Lane. Black middle aged gent who ran it,

> said it was a good distraction for blokes out

> shopping with their other halves.

>

> Meanwhile do we have any local shops (or wider)

> with funny names to compete with: (I've visited

> the boutique in France, but it doesn't quite live

> up to its name)

>

> http://www.hifiwigwam.com/archive/index.php/t-1802

> 2.html



Remember it well - suits you sir - he was as camp as a row of tents and yes he did try to feel you when when measuring your inside leg.

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