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Petite: seven companions, posted with their opening hours
Every door on the street carries a small sign with its hours, and the sensible shopper reads it first. This window borrows the idea. Seven companions carry a petite build on their profiles, which describes frame as much as height, and each keeps hours of her own. They are listed in the order their doors open, from morning coffee to the late shift.
The hours are her preference rather than a rule, and the exact time is always fixed by message. Start with the right sign, though, and the first answer is usually yes.
Petite, lit
7 women in the windows fit this description, going by the facts on their profiles. Each pane leads to the full picture.
Jasmin
Age 22Soho
Lea
Age 23Belgravia
Lucy
Age 24Pimlico
Rosa
Age 25Marylebone
Sonya
Age 32Knightsbridge
Tiffany
Age 24Soho
Tina
Age 26Covent Garden
Open from the first espresso: Lucy
Lucy takes daytime bookings and clear midweek evenings. Her morning starts with espresso at the counter of Kaffeine on Great Titchfield Street, then drifts through Fitzrovia past small galleries and studio windows until lunch smells right somewhere. Dark curls, brown eyes, a park runner by day and a stargazer by night.
Open after lunch, closing after supper: Rosa
Rosa lives in Marylebone and likes an afternoon that becomes supper without anybody deciding it should. Cheese and a glass of wine at La Fromagerie on Moxon Street, a browse down Marylebone Lane, a gallery with a single room, then a table with chairs that do not match. Chestnut curls, a keen baker, a crate of soul records at home.
Open five until ten, exactly: Sonya
Sonya keeps the neatest hours in The Selection: five in the evening until ten, and never a minute past. Selfridges fragrance hall first, then an early dinner before the pavements fill. Early thirties; she carries herself like a ballet dancer and starts each morning with meditation.
Open before curtain up: Lea
Lea is easiest midweek, timed around a theatre: the lamps at Heal's, an early supper, then the walk to your seats. Weekends fill quickly, so give those a few days.
Open midweek evenings: Tiffany
Tiffany is simplest to place in the middle of the week. Champagne at the Sanderson's Long Bar, a few steps north of the street, then dinner in Fitzrovia somewhere the lighting is kind. Chocolate brown hair, a street photographer's eye and strong opinions on hotel door handles.
Open evenings, same night welcome: Tina
Tina works evenings and often says yes on the day itself. The Punch Room on Berners Street, a corner booth and a bowl to share, then a record bar a short walk away. Espresso brown hair, athletic, and a tailor's eye that spots a badly set sleeve at twenty paces.
Open after nine: Jasmin
Jasmin starts late and handles short notice well. Artesian at The Langham, a seat at the bar and never a sofa, and a second drink picked for you once she has named your perfume.
Pairs, neighbours and the price list
Jasmin and Tiffany live a few streets apart in Soho and already know each other, which is why they work so well together on duo evenings. Whatever the hours on the sign, the price list is the one used everywhere else: £250 an hour, ninety minutes for £400, three hours for £700. Sonya and Tina also stand in toned and athletic, and Jasmin, Lea, Lucy and Tiffany in early twenties.
Read the signs from your own end of the day. A morning or a lunchtime points to Lucy or Rosa; an early evening opens five doors at once; and once it is late, Jasmin is the surest answer, with Tina often free the same night.
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