Mr Chapman and the Albam boys (sadly this is not the name of a band)

Thanks to Mr Lee Chapman, who is going to become one of our regular contributers, for this. All very good advice, which we will try our best to heed.

If you are thinking of buying a Christmas present for Mr Dayo James (my very good friend and co-blog founder), you could do a lot worse than something from Albam.

Albam started in a small office in Nottingham, with a philosophy of creating modern, crafted clothing. Today they have two stores in London, one on Beak Street in Soho and the other in Spitalfields Market, as well as mail order through the website. Though it's well worth going to the shops as the staff are very lovely and always happy to talk clothes.