But,unlike housing, few people get damage when a beaded Balmain jacket sells for four times its sale valueEveryone loves a beneficial queue. The mechanisms of queueing may as well be genetically hardwired into the civic brain, or for all the rage encountered when someone wilfully disobeys the unspoken rules of the Great British Queue. So any story on queues snaking around the corner as people queue overnight for a dim chance of buying a property are catnip for the general public.final week,a queue of people slept overnight on the streets of Hounslow to set aside their name down for one of the “affordable” original build flats shooting up in the area. Photos of the campers could easily have been swapped out with shoppers keen to snap up jumpers and dresses from the Balmain x H&M range, or any queue outside the Apple store hours before the latest tweaked iPhone is released. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com