The latest issue of The Rake, featuring Alessandro Sartori of Z Zegna as well as our own Simon Crompton on the personal shopping service at Harrod’s, is now in the Lodger shop. Come in and pick up a copy.

The bad news is that Lodger is now sold out of issue 6 of The Rake, featuring Diego Della Valle on the cover. The good news is that we have just received around 20 copies of issue 7 of The Rake, featuring Tom Ford on the cover.

Happy Christmas,
Lodger

The latest edition of The Rake is now available at Lodger. Grab this unique menswear magazine while you can as the last stack went fast. Lodger is the only place in the UK where The Rake can be bought outside of a subscription. Copies cost £10.

Now the annoying thing about a Shoe of the Month is that it’s only around for (obviously, you may say) a month. That may seem like a long time to make a decision, but when you’re a ditherer like me it goes in a second.

I first became aware of Lodger in April 2009. The shoe of the month was that 1920s tennis shoe with the red lining. I ummed and ahhed for days, finally deciding against the purchase. It’s a choice I’ve regretted ever since. Equally, our lovely founder Nathan gets most Lodgers made in his (rather large) size. But he never got the suede collar oxford that was available in February 2009. It obviously rankles: I’ve heard him tell the story to customers about 30 times.

Now that can all change. To celebrate Lodger’s one-year anniversary, there will be a vote on which was your favourite shoe of the month – the winner will be re-released as an extra-special shoe of the month in January 2010. Obviously Nathan and I won’t be voting, but friends and family out there – if you love me you’ll vote for the tennis shoe!

See photos of all the previous shoes of the month below. Voting starts tomorrow and can be done either through emailing info@lodgerfootwear.com or coming into the shop and declaring in a loud voice “My favourite shoe of the month was…” The choice will then be duly noted.

Poll closes at the end of the month, when the winner will be announced. Good luck. And fingers crossed.

And to refresh your collective memories, we’ve featured all of the styles after the jump.

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I am sorry to announce that the pair of purple Italian Weekend Slip-ons, that we previously revealed were to be placed on the block for this week’s auction, have been sold in store over the weekend. Having only had one size left available; this means we are now unable to offer the pair this Friday.

Lodger would like to say thank you to Lucia van der Post and everyone at How To Spend It for the great piece on Lodger in the weekend edition of the Financial Times. For those of you who missed it, here’s a link to the full piece.