WHITEHORNS WORLD Katharine Whitehorn
London Since my name : not Yoko Street Lethargy, I am ncft unduly envious of people who can buy Yves Saint Laurent headscarves. Not being called Lilian takes the edge off my sense of deprivation at having no Loewe luggage. I am only sorry that no one called Kettering Elijah Whittleshank has yet gone into the medium-priced handbag business, since K.E.W. are my initials and the only ones 1 want on my belongings. But others, apparently, don’t fee! this way at all. Businessmen who used, smirking self-consciously, to have their own initials embroidered on their shirts would nowadays prefer something that indicates that the shirt belongs to Pierre Cardin. Harrods, which likes to think of itself as London’s classiest store, actually sells tote bags with he word Harrods on them, so
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Press, 22 November 1978, Page 17
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