Trend-setter height of fashion for 25 years
In 1986 when fashion folk donned Chipie sweatshirts and pairs of Cheviginon jeans, an oil well engineer who had been travelling around the world for 12 years returned to his home town of Great Yarmouth to follow a dream.
It was a dream that led the 32-year-old man to give up a life of travelling throughout Africa, the Middle East and Asia to return to Norfolk to set up a menâs fashion boutique in Norwich.
That man was Philip Browne, and his boutique of the same name is currently celebrating 25 years of business with new bigger premises on Guildhall Hill.
âI was in Pakistan when I had the dream to open up a boutique in Norwich,â says Philip. âI have always loved clothes and fashion. Plus I had fallen desperately in love with a nurse called Cathy [who is now Philipâs wife of 27 years] and I wanted a Ford Cortina and three children.
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