11-22-2013, 09:17 AM
I went in there with my wife back in 1995. I'm sure there was some kind of dress code to get in there. My wife was seconded by one of her lame friends to bring back a Harrod's shopping bag for her. The cheapest thing she could find to buy at the time was the Harrod's Christmas shortbread for the bargain price of £9.50..
A week or so later we went to Bainbridges in Newcastle and she bought a coat for £200.00. At the time I was gobsmacked, but the old biddie behind the counter said to me "Sir, at Bainbridges we believe in the tradition of buying something that we will require for life, once, and it lasting for that life. I'm sure you will agree at your age, that for two hundred pounds, this is a bargain"
I gave her the two hundred quid and smiled. My oldest daughter still wears that coat in the winter and it still looks like the day my wife picked it out.
Addit: and Duchess, Macys in New York eats it for breakfast. That place is just a lesson in shopping. Two and a half times the floor space of Harrods. I think you could live in Macys (if they didn't have 24 hr security) and nobody would know.
A week or so later we went to Bainbridges in Newcastle and she bought a coat for £200.00. At the time I was gobsmacked, but the old biddie behind the counter said to me "Sir, at Bainbridges we believe in the tradition of buying something that we will require for life, once, and it lasting for that life. I'm sure you will agree at your age, that for two hundred pounds, this is a bargain"
I gave her the two hundred quid and smiled. My oldest daughter still wears that coat in the winter and it still looks like the day my wife picked it out.
Addit: and Duchess, Macys in New York eats it for breakfast. That place is just a lesson in shopping. Two and a half times the floor space of Harrods. I think you could live in Macys (if they didn't have 24 hr security) and nobody would know.
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