Armstrong's

This weekend I discovered Armstrong's. They are an apparently-famous chain of vintage shops through Britain, starting from the first in London. There's one about a ten minute walk from my room I pass by almost every day but have never been inside. No, not even now. I went to another one in Edinburgh which is apparently better... Edinburgh has three Armstrong's. Actually I don't understand how you can have a chain of vintage shops, but all right.

The ladies' section was pretty cool, although a lot of the dresses were atrocious. It was the back corner of the gents' section that I spent most of my time there... vintage army jackets. Most of them were British, but they had a few German ones, and even I could tell the difference from American camoflague. I might have spelled that properly I'm not sure.

Where we would say "men's clothes" here it is "gents' clothes". I feel like I have mentioned that before but I can't be sure. I guess we say "ladies'"? I can't even remember anymore.


Today I tried to explain the differences in PhD program[me]s between the US and UK and probably failed.