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Does John Lewis still have a haberdashery?

22 replies

Vagaceratops · 18/01/2013 12:56

I want to get DD some ribbon for her hair.

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Vagaceratops · 18/01/2013 12:57

Oh crap, I thought this was chat.

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WildRumpus · 18/01/2013 13:00

YABVVU to doubt John Lewis' commitment to haberdashery! Of course they still have a haberdashery. And they even keep expanding their ribbon selection. Just the other day I was lusting after a gorgeous selection of outrageously priced VV Rouleaux ribbons.

CoffeeBucks · 18/01/2013 13:00

The JLs in Glasgow and Edinburgh have haberdashery depts, yes.

MamaMumra · 18/01/2013 13:04

Yes for ribbons but no patterns etc. at least in our nearest one ...

drjohnsonscat · 18/01/2013 13:05

hardly, tbh. They do have haberdashery (hard to say) in Oxford St but it's not what it once was in the good old days. They actually sent me to an actual haberdashers off Oxford St the other day - MacCulloch and Wallis on Dering St for a proper selection.

press red for more moaning about how JL has stopped selling useful things and only sells designer rubbish these days

FryOneFatManic · 18/01/2013 13:05

We're a small town, so no JL here, but we have Boyes and they do haberdashery. I've had some good stuff from there.

CastingNasturtiums · 18/01/2013 13:07

Ribbon Heaven!

YANBU btw.

OhTheConfusion · 18/01/2013 13:17

JL in Glasgow have the bast placed haberdashery ever... you have to go through it to get to the cafe... win/win!

CommanderShepard · 18/01/2013 13:20

High Wycombe doesn't, weirdly; just upholstery stuff.

mazzi2fly · 18/01/2013 13:21

Hobbycraft also does ribbon, which you can buy by the metre or a whole roll of it.

DameMargotFountain · 18/01/2013 13:24

we've just got a new haberdashers on the market - i squealed with delight when i saw it Blush

but yes, JL does still have some, your profile reads East Mids, Vaga - JL at Highcross is lovely

ILikeBirds · 18/01/2013 13:32

I love Boyes, sells all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff.

JL Nottingham has a reasonable haberdashery section

CaptChaos · 18/01/2013 13:49

JL Kingston still has a haberdashery, not been in a few years, so not sure what they have now, but they always had ribbons, fabric, lovely patterns and other gorgeousness!

CastingNasturtiums · 18/01/2013 14:11

Hmm, if it wasn't for ProvincialLady's gym scales result of 9% I would have said it sounds like the scales you can buy or use at the gym hugely overestimate your body fat.

CastingNasturtiums · 18/01/2013 14:12

Haha, massively wrong thread, sorry :)

Startail · 18/01/2013 15:09

Cribbs JL has a bit, nothing like the amazing Sheffield haberdashery of my childhood.

Markets are the place for things like hair ribbon, way cheaper than anywhere else.

Our cake decorating shop also has an amazingly good choice of ribbon.

Fecklessdizzy · 18/01/2013 15:21

Cambridge JL does, definitely! I was in there last week and YABVVU to question it's existance ... More crafty-type shit than you can shake a stick at! Grin

AnneNonimous · 18/01/2013 15:27

I love the word haberdashery

Molehillmountain · 18/01/2013 20:24

Yes, but mostly you have to buy a whole roll of the ribbon.

pixwix · 18/01/2013 20:40

Yabvvvvu! Angry

Yes Grin it does still have a haberdashery. I could spent all day in there actually - it is very hypnotic - all the different colours, textures, and the way things are arranged - I go into a kind of trance - but I do that at my local 'fashion 'n' fabrics' haberdashery too - I buy lots of wool for knitting.

Haberdashery is a great word though innit! - in fact after someone pointed it out, I had to look it up.... Blush It's just one of those odd words that is a part of my volcabulary, that conjures up very comforting images... but almost sounds quite racey!

The word appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Haberdashers were initially peddlers, sellers of small items such as needles and buttons. The word could derive from an Old Norse word akin to the Icelandic haprtask, which means peddlers' wares or the sack in which the peddler carried them. If this is the case, a haberdasher (in its Scandinavian meaning) would be very close to a mercer (French). Perhaps more likely, since the word has no recorded use in Scandinavia, it is from Anglo-Norman hapertas, meaning small ware. A haberdasher would retail small wares, the goods of the peddler, while a mercer would specialize in "linens, silks, fustian, worsted piece-goods and bedding".

Saint Louis IX, the King of France 1226?70, is the patron saint of haberdashers in France. In Belgium and other places in Continental Europe, it is Saint Nicholas, while in the City of London the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers adopted Saint Catherine as the patron saint of the guild. (wikipedia)

There you go Blush

BMW6 · 18/01/2013 20:42

Southampton one does, sells everything haberdasheryish!

CraftyDad · 02/05/2013 23:10

The one in Peter Jones seems to more focused on sewing these days. Yarn section is untidy and poorly stocked. The yarn I was after was labelled but an empty shelf awaited me. The assistant was clueless on restocking.

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