I’ll admit it, I got quite excited when I heard about the re-branding of Peacocks. I don’t think I had ever been inside a Peacocksbefore but I happened to be in Southampton on the first day of their opening. When I couldn’t find anything I liked I wasn’t overly surprised, not even particular disappointed, but when I then went in to their Luton branch and their Stoke branch and a few others and still found nothing I gave in to the idea that Peacocks was shit, is shit and always will be… shit.
But then! bored one afternoon I was wandering around town and there low and behold a pair of brogues identical to those in Topshop! The only difference… was one pair cost £75 and the other £12! I am that pleased with my cheapo brogues that I took a photo of them of their debut night out!
Moral of the story: Persist with Peacocks and you might just come acorss something great.
(But for everyday shopping avoid it like the plague!)
4 Comments
April 4, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I think it’s great that high st. shops are ripping off other high st. shops! With fashion how it is today and the whole ‘credit crunch’ no one wants to pay £75 for a pair of shoes! Ok…so they may last for 5 years….but after 3 months they’ll be out of fashion!
I get that Topshop and the likes sell quality clothes but theres just no point in paying for it when we live in such a throw away society!
April 4, 2008 at 9:43 pm
i got those as well!!i love them and they may not be real leather but they’re alot more comforatable than the topshop ones!
April 19, 2008 at 9:16 am
i keep buying topshop shoes and not only are they dead expensive and uncomfortable they dont even last that long! I bought the topshop brouges but now ive seen the peacock ones im a bit sad
September 16, 2009 at 11:14 am
I am trying to locate your brogues as listed in a magazine – black and white two tone priced at £15
Virginia Byrne