As we sit around in velvet jackets, armed with quill pens and parchment, sniffing the vapours while we document the history of this noble city, our IT minions constantly harp on about things called word processors and broadband, as if the fact that we work for an e-magazine meant we had to automatically walk into the cold electronic embrace of the 21st century.

The latest example of this is some sort of gentleman's outfitters whereby you use a computer to select clothing, and then it's mailed to you, no doubt getting horribly creased on the way. Men-a-la-Mode, for that is its name, launches tomorrow, and does have the redeeming feature of purveying the wares of designers we don't normally get to play with here in London.