As the New Season kicks in and the last of the sale disappears into Brora lovers’ wardrobes, we want to celebrate the zest, humour and steely determination we find running through our customers. So here is a correspondence we have been having with a lady who needs to remain anonymous to preserve her addiction…
Hello Brora,
I have lost all of what little self control I have when it comes to shopping in your sales and placed yet another order.

As I am not, until I win the lottery in the next couple of weeks, at all flush, please would you consider waiving the postage so I can buy even more from you next season. Talking of which, please could you tell me when the new season will be on-line/brochure as I am looking forward to seeing the new colour swatch. I should get out more!
Thank you
Yours happily living on beans on toast but looking very well dressed
From here the correspondence, and her wardrobe flourished:
Hi Brora,
Glad to have received the lovely Cranberry bolero and what amazing luck that delivery could be arranged to my mums’ house, who I was visiting last week.

I wouldn’t wish to describe myself as furtive, particularly as I work to fund my Brora addiction, but the tolerance level of a certain person to the increasingly regular appearance of the City Link van had been somewhat stretched these past few weeks due to all the amazing sale purchases I have made!

Dear Brora,
Our autumnal menu is being devised in order to accommodate my new wish list based on your early Autumn collection. Lentil soup (green Continental lentils, onion, Celery or carrots, tinned tomatoes and garlic). Very filling and cheap. Enough of this and jacket spuds/pasta enables me to secure the ribbed shawl cardigan in black (long awaited), whilst it is still in stock. My three teenage sons protest a little, but never mind.
Next on my wish list is the textured knit cardigan, probably Bronze although the Kelp is also coveted. Me thinks a trip to a Brora store to see the colours first hand would be in order by October. By then Betty’s tea rooms in Harrogate and a Rascal bun will add to the delight of exploring your new store, and viewing the liberty print skirts/dresses there. Simple pleasures…..
Am off to smoke and drink now and dream about gorgeous cashmere clad men, whoops! No! I am going to bed to dream of the Autumn collection.
P.S. Brilliant to see Fair Trade products creeping in, I must sound like a selfish materialistic beast with all I covet, but am also actually quite caring! (And modest).
PPS No lottery win last week, but work started a syndicate which I am a member of as of yesterday, and have bought a euro million ticket for tomorrow, so will keep you posted.
We do not yet know the euro million result.
Simple pleasures and lots of laughing…we thank this fabulous customer for sharing her recipes and her wish list with us…. we love both, and look forward to hearing more cashmere dreams and adventures from resourceful Brora lovers everywhere….