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Boom at Cologne tweed shop ‘John Crocket’ thanks to Netflix series

“Based in Friesenstraße, the Cologne tweed shop ‘John Crocket’ has been the place to go for the popular British suit for 35 years.” Read the article

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

(...) “You have to break up the look a little so that it does not look too severe.” Just as Schätzing does with cowboy boots. (...) Read the article

RTL West

Tweed jackets, toffees and tea. (...) That keeps the tills ringing for retailers who specialise in British goods. These include a shop in Meckenheim near Bonn. Its mail-order business and its shop...

Welt am Sonntag

Brexit means more work (...) At “John Crocket”, a specialist in jumpers and tweed suits, the winter stock also did not arrive in January and February as usual. “This time we did not receive the...

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

“A piece of Great Britain in Cologne.”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“The shop on Cologne's Friesenstraße stands out: old floorboards, tall wooden shelves, an antique bureau, stucco ornament on the ceiling and a chandelier.”

Die Welt

“Anyone who walks into the outfitter John Crocket on Cologne's Friesenstraße feels transported to another world,” the newspaper enthuses