Closed down fashion business in the Jewellery Quarter with dishevelled looking mannequins wearing floral dresses next to peeling and torn posters depicting female models on 2nd September 2022 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Things have been difficult for small businesses over the past two years and especially now with the ongoing cost of living crisis and the increasing financial pressures on the cost of goods in which prices for many essential goods in the UK began increasing faster than household incomes, resulting in a fall in real incomes. This is caused in part by a rise in inflation in the UK, as well as the economic impact of foreign issues.