a store instead of Bloomingdales?

[dragonyphoenix]

A question for my British friends. Giles' PoV describing a woman. She's a secretary but she buys upscale clothes. I'm thinking Bloomingdale's discount rack. But I don't know if a British guy would know Bloomies.

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[gillo]

My thoughts, pretty much. But he might think in terms of shopping in Mayfair, say. He'd be more likely to think she had a certain indefinable elegance unusual in somebody with a job like hers.

It would take a Cordelia or Harmony to put him right on the actual shop brands, though.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Knightsbridge rather than Mayfair, surely?

[gillo]

Knightsbridge is for tourists. Mayfair is where the really upmarket little shops are. According to F, who works there. Sloane Square possibly - but Bond Street trumps that.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

That's knowledge I would think only a woman would have. A bloke would be aware, as I am, that Harrods and Harvey Nicks are in Knightsbridge but not know about the little shops. To me Mayfair is a square on the Monopoly board and a fairly up-market adult magazine.

[gillo]

Yeah, but you don't live in London. Ripper's accent suggests he comes from Camden, like Tony Head. Londoners know areas a bit more. If only so they know where to avoid.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

If only so they know where to avoid. *laughs*