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...In the hands of their superlative salesforce, these stores were democratisers of finery, and pioneers in the peddling of luxury to an Asian middle class....
...So far, instances of stores closing or reducing hours have been rare. With some notable exceptions, absence levels are below last year’s peaks....
...Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and Lee (John Krasinski) and their two kids blissfully attend a little-league game, untroubled except for some alarming news footage flashing up on the convenience store TV....
...Liberty Avenue conceived for military parades and the greater glory of the fascist state, we can instead enjoy the spectacle of the passeggiata, which has the young and beautiful dressing up in their wedding finery...
...Fashionable ladies padded their bellies and waddled proudly forth, wrapped in yard after yard of finery....
...Less practical guide, more fantasy indulgence, this is a visual feast of colour, creativity and the heart-soaring happiness that comes from flowers in their finery....
...It was a great moment: the spectacle of the horses and finery, as well as the wide-eyed appreciation of my children and grandchildren....
...Luxury brand Burberry said sales in its British heartland declined by “a high single digit percentage” in the last three months of 2017, as big-spending tourists opted to travel outside the UK in search of finery...
...John Lewis Partnership has always been different to other retailers — and not just because of its odd status as a worker-owned purveyor of finery to the capitalist middle classes....
...Apparently, a well-known public official spent years worrying about fashion choices in its Peter Jones store before realising free advice was available from resident expert, Sheila....
...But there was better news elsewhere, as the trenchcoat maker reported a 2 per cent increase in global same-store sales, down only slightly from a 3 per cent rise in the same period last year....
...In its store, a record player is playing Erik Satie and Aldo Ciccolini....
...Matchesfashion.com Finery High-street brand Finery offer a contemporary take on wardrobe staples....
...It was for Glasgow’s Drug Store. “We make our own ice cream”, it says cunningly, before adding a more reassuring note for the over-nines: “Special care given to doctors’ prescriptions....
...In 1785, Gainsborough painted Mrs Sarah Siddons in dazzling finery and a great black hat, staring off to her right with a determined eye and a strong jaw....
...At 63, he is a tasteful hybrid of Morrissey and David Bowie, sleek, straight-backed and silver-quiffed in rakish brown finery....
...“First is the question of how you avoid it looking like a furniture store; how is it different to a typical bourgeois living room? Second is the problem of the inflation of design....
...For Maje, which arrived in 2009 and now has six stores with another planned, and seven concessions, the UK is a key market....
...See, for example, Marchesa, where designers Keren Craig and Georgina Chapman found inspiration for their parade of lavish red carpet finery in India, and ended up in Bollywood....
...There were digital innovations, from Valentino’s virtual museum to Burberry’s tweeted-by-look fashion show to Gucci’s high-resolution online flagship store....
...However, the biggest surprise is in store a few weeks into the fall session when otherwise normal students suddenly start appearing in formal finery!...
...It was kitschy and clichéd but even though it was one-note, it was a very loud note, blown brightly enough to resound through their stores, where sales are reportedly on a steep upward trajectory....
...The 1.5 per cent slide in underlying sales during the Christmas quarter – a time of year when shoppers typically trade up by swapping the likes of Tesco turkeys for M&S finery – was bad enough....
...Several internet start-ups sent emissaries to wait in line overnight in an attempt to secure publicity for their business by waiting in line, bedecked incorporate logos and finery....
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