Things all went a bit Life on Mars for me the other day when I happened upon a discarded newspaper i...
Things all went a bit Life on Mars for me the other day when I happened upon a discarded newspaper in a front garden. Among the delights of the Daily Express, dated November 12, 1971, incidentally the year I was born, were two full-page adverts of winter coats from Burton and Man at C&A, illustrating neatly where DCI Gene Hunt in the BBC’s time-travelling cop show would have done his shopping. (“More warmth, more style, more value. From only £14”, trumpeted the Burton advert, which featured a moustachioed model in a fetching double-breasted corduroy number with fur lapels.) But aside ...
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