Shifnal's new dress shop - "twelve"

(not that anything fits me...)

One of the things I miss about London is that, as you go about your daily life, there's a parade of female loveliness wherever you look. I once fell in love five times on one tube journey from Balham to Leicester Square. With Spring coming the annual city bloom of frocks and skirts will be starting soon. In Shifnal, not so much.

So it's surprising that we should have a shop selling second-hand designer clothes and it seems to be thriving. Window-shopping is hardly my thing, but every day I pass by the shop I'm taken by how beautiful the window displays are. There is a mannequin in each window, and everyday they are wearing something new and stunning.

I've definitely been in a small town too long. I think I've fallen in love with a headless shop dummy.



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