Shopping in Galeries Lafayette is one of my enduring memories of the mid sixties. I remember buying an amazing pair of tan shoes with a shaped heel, they were made of such soft leather. I also bought the iconic keyhole gloves from there in the softest kid leather. I wish I had kept them!
My friend and I would travel to London at the weekend from Brentwood Essex to shop in Carnaby Street and stop for coffee in a great coffee bar (Wardour St I think) which was dark and dingy with skeletons and other macabre items hanging from the ceilings. The tables were made from coffin lids. How cool we were sipping our "frothy coffee" from smokey glass cups.
Does anyone remember the coffee bar?
