When the sixties band, The Kinks, released: "Dedicated Follower of Fashion," they were more or less describing the scene in London, and beyond. Carnaby Street became the place to be with all sorts of shops opening up. Previously it was a street of warehouses, which made it a cheap option for the early retailers. They didn't have to pay the exorbitant rent & rates that was demanded in Central London's shopping area, known as The West End.
Soho was London's Bohemia, it has always had a sort of seedy reputation, not undeservedly, but it is also a magnet as it was in my youth. There were coffee houses, most famous being The Two Eyes & The Macabre. So many sixties bands that achieved world fame, would gig in those coffee houses.
Curiously though, like my peers, I spent far too much on fashion trends, but once I discovered the music and fashion of the earlier part of the twentieth century, I had what today is called, a light bulb moment.