Working part time has more than a few perks. Traveling to our capital city when everyone else is encased in their
offices and visiting Liberty of London during this time is one of them. While this famous store is well known for prints and designer gear, if you're at all into architecture it's well worth a walk around
the building without the hustle and bustle of the Saturday crowds. Taking in the ornate carvings of the door frames and beams next
to the latest offerings of McQueen and McCartney is a cool
juxtaposition of tradition and trend.
I love the staircases that
takes you from designer handbags to the Christmas store as it's dripping with history. The creak of wood that's been trampled by countless shoppers
since 1875 conjures up positively
Narnian images and the scent of oak and entitlement oozes
out of every corner. The whole building has otherworldly aspects, you can almost see the hands of ghost customers reaching out to
touch the scarves in the hall.
or maybe not. |
Purple has long been my favourite colour and I've worn it for years. True, I over did it the first year I went ski-ing by wearing nothing but the colour all week and resembled a slow moving Ribenna berry for the entire holiday. However from now on, as it's Liberty's colour it will no longer be reminiscent of my fashion faux-pas. It will be a call to arms, to spend more time in Liberty.
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