27 June 2007

A Passage to India

Indian Summer Clothing

With the warm weather rolling in, you’ve been bitten by the travel bug.

Right now, however, you’re more likely to visit the new deli on the corner than New Delhi on the subcontinent.

Save your carbon footprints and make a trip to Indian Summer. The Fulham-based shop, favoured among urban hippies and trustafarians for some time, has just launched an e-commerce site, so all can benefit from its colourful offerings.

Everything’s cheap as chapati. Pick up cotton kaftans, silk knickers, Kashmir — sorry, cashmere — boleros and glittering embroidered slippers, all from a hot £10. Plus, there are scented candles and soaps, snuggly slipper socks, beautiful Bengals — that’s bangles — and plenty of things for the home.

Now you don’t have to haggle in Mumbai to buy authentic wares.

What are you waiting for?

Just Goa.

Indian Summer, 624c Fulham Road, SW6 5RS (020 7731 8234 or indiansummershop.com).