Kleins

Tucked away behind a black, unassuming-looking Soho shopfront, Kleins offers a glorious welter of trimmings: lace trim, ribbons, shoulder pads, military-styling frogging and iron-on badges and motifs of every description. Purse and bag frames, buckles, buttons, dyes (including shoe dyes), zips and metal corset stays, bra fittings and wires are among the other useful bits and bobs, and there’s a good array of haberdashery tools for sale too, such as tape measures, sewing machine oil and bulbs, tracing wheels, pliers, scissors and pin cushions. The craft sets (for making purses, hats, et al) are good gifts options.