Q. I find it most difficult to obtain loden
clothes in England. All that can be found readily are the 'Douglas Hurd'-style loden overcoats, as sported by members of the 'DL, JP' class, usually flung in the back of a Subaru estate car. What I would like is a Sound of Music-style sports coat. Green or grey loden jackets of this sort, often with differently coloured collars, as on a hunting coat, are frequently to be seen on visiting Austrians and Bavarians, but are unobtainable in Blighty. Mary, where can such garments be purchased in Britain?
J.S., London SWI
A. Swanns Way, owned and run by Alistair Cooke's stepdaughter 1142 Rumbold, provides trendy laden and coats with different buttons, etcetera: folkloric lite. Swanns Way is at 55 Hol&wood Road London SW10. TeL 0207 351 7907 For classical Austrian clothes you might visit online the shop pfaronised b)., Marlene Dietrich and Herbert von ICarajan, Lanz of Salzburg www.lanztrachten.at. TeL 00 43 662 874272.
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