J C Cordings and Co Ltd

 Boys aloud

"In the City of London, brightly coloured trousers sell best"

Catwalk in the country

"For a while the store has been slipping occasional juicy fashion morsels - leather jodhpurs and Spanish riding boots similar to those worn by Jemima Khan and Kate Middleton"

Clapton rescues gentlemen's shop

"The guitarist said he has been fond of the shop since a window display caught his eye when he was 16, and has been a regular shopper for the past two years"

The way we Waugh by David Mills

"In the end, though, give or take a trouser pleat here, a narrower lapel there, you have to say that it is pretty much classic English style"

Coxon for Cordings

"it has now been noted that Blur guitarist Graham Coxon is the star of the latest advertisements"

Eric's New Coat

"Beloved of aristo dandies and bankrolled by Eric Clapton, Cordings is a bastion of stability in the maelstrom of modern men's retailing"

It's hip to be squire

"Fasion has finally realised tweed is too good to be left to uncles and farmers"

Stunning feet of postwar engineering

Cordings can address all those women who, as he quaintly puts it, “want to accompany their husbands, boyfriends in the countryside.

Eat you heart out, Rupert Bear

"Wearing loud tweed is a bit like taking drugs - it only gets stronger and you never go back to a weaker check"

Sparks fly as Draper meets his tormentor

"Four years after Eric Clapton bought up a 50 per cent stake in Cordings, fellow guitar god Graham Coxon has bestowed his patronage on the esteemed country outfitters"