Hunt for a Red shirt

I need to buy a red shirt in Cambridge - where to go? Any ideas? I guess suit shops and the big stores just have those faded gay pastel choices... dead lemon, poached salmon pink, white (ugh)... any ideas?

Try the charity shops along burleigh street?

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Thank you... that red shirt would be perfect. I shall summon up the courage to visit these shops next week. I don't even know where these shops are... Topman... is that next to Boots? Petty Cury side? Last time I went there it was but that was 8 years ago and it was upstairs ... or was that the old Next?

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Next also do them, proper red like a post box not wussy washed out nasty version : )

Get a white cotton shirt and dye it red. they sell dyes in Robert Sayle's amazing habadashery department. The ones you put in a washing machine make it come out really even all over and also it won't turn your washing red for all eternity (trust me, I've dyed many things).

I've always been a bit dubious about dying clothes in the washing machine. I have some stuff that is faded black so I figured if I dyed it black it would restore it's blackness... would that work?

I have dyed a lot of clothes using said dye from said (albeit oldstore location) habadashery (what a word)... a lot of cotton white shirts have nylon stitching so it can get a bit weird... you know, you dye 5 things and 2 look good and the others are like "I've just been dyed - can't you tell?"

Dying faded black clothes "brand new black" works.

I need a red beret too...

It works really well Chelley.

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I need a red beret too...

I have a felt bright red beret with a peak, it not quite a baker boy. You can borrow it but i think you'll look well daft.

I've got a Liverbirds Nery's Hughes oversized beret with a peak.. well, its my mom's - I did wear it to a fancy dress party once when I went as Andy Warhol... it is more than a little rampantly gay... wedding is in Kings Lynn... only gay relationships there are father and son and family dog.