After thinking about it for a while, I had saved up the cash and had decided to get myself a proper made-to-measure suit for those days at work when I really wanted to make an impression. I did wear suits at work sometimes but having a 33” waist (and trousers coming in either 32” or 34”) meant that while jackets fitted okay, the trousers never fitted as well as they could. So I’d gone along to a tailor in my hometown that...

The heat of the day had passed, but London was having the last laugh as the buildings gave up all the heat they had absorbed through the day. As was my want in my summer commute, I had changed out of my works clothes in to board shorts, linen shirt and flip flops in a forlorn attempt to make the journey home more bearable. I was in my own world contemplating my evening and when I noticed the girl standing off to my left h...