Baubles all over the world is the name of the game for some at the department store – you can see Yuletide in summer becoming an august institution
I’ll tell you what was flying off the shelves in the Selfridges Christmas shop, London, on 6 August 2015: pure white baubles that said “Selfridges 2015”. This is a big thing in the world of Christmas trees; it’s the modern equivalent of collecting spoons.
“Wherever I go, to any major city,” said Paula Byrne, “I always visit the Christmas store. My tree has got every continent on it.” She is accompanied by a full complement of menfolk: her father, Tommy Simon, 75, her husband John, 53, and her son Harrison, 15. They are uncomplaining, as they lurk between robins made of twigs and tiny owls in exquisitely soft, unknowable fabrics: her father has even bought some Christmas cards, as a gesture of goodwill. “We don’t just have a tree,” Paula, 49, adds, “we have mini-trees in the kids’ bedrooms.”
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Source: The Guardian Circular Economy RSS