Generation games

I’M a reasonable woman, I like to think. Having been around for three decades now, I’ve seen a bit of life. Take my job, for instance, in the shoe shop – we get all sorts of customers. Most are lovely

DO you think this pair look comfortable?” I was in a shoe shop when I overheard this question. The speaker was a middle-aged lady. I was relieved to find that she’d been addressing her remark to the a

Ihadn’t heard from Roy Biddle in nearly thirty years when he called my home number. This was 1991, and an October day when brown, slippery leaves coated the pavement outside our west London house. Roy

From its not-so-humble beginnings in London via a stint in the trenches and star turns on the Paris catwalks, the king of the boot room has been on an extraordinary journey, finds Deborah Nicholls-Lee

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