A wonderful quote from a reader that emailed me yesterday:

“Thanks so much for your blog. I have been trying to dress myself for a new career. I tried men’s magazines and found myself confused about who they could be writing for – how many men can have adolescent sexuality and materialism and a few hundred thousand dollars to spend on clothes?”

Who indeed. Very well put, Mickey.

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Hi Christopher. I've only bought one thing and that went smoothly, so I don't have much to comment, no. It's much more effective for something like customer service to have experiences from a number of people - as has happened here in the comments.

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