With some shoppers making a beeline for the newly reopened high street, the items being bought – as well as the queues to buy them – say a lot about what we want to wear now
For three months, our shopping lists were spartan. Loo roll, flour, eggs, another three crates of anti-bac spray. Watering can for the tomato plants, printer ink cartridge. Pack of three gingham masks (expensive, but justified by profits going to charity.) The odd lockdown-lifestyle splurge on a yoga mat or a cocktail shaker. But after three months of pent-up consumerism, the non-essential shops are open again in England. So what do the first few days back on the high street tell us about which non-essentials are, in fact, essential?
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