Clothes shops that disappeared

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Was just googling "petite maxi skirt" (seems to be a rarity) and Pilot came up as an option. Remember pilot?! Didn't know it was still going. Which then reminded me of similar store Bay Trading which I used to love as a teen. And etam!

Any others you lot remember?

Oh and if you know any good places to get a petite maxi skirt for a wedding do let me know, I'm really struggling here.

Bennetton is still there zoflora
Not as many but there is one in our Town and I buy quite a few bits for both me and DS

Ooh thank you Hopping! I used to love it

Mothercare is less common now and Chilldrens world which I loved when I was pregnant with my first

Mark One

Bought lovely jumpers there in the early 90s for about £5. Cheap fun clothes that looked great

I miss Lewis' in Liverpool city centre. I remember they had a whole toy floor called Kids HQ that they used to do up at christmas, two big teddies that used to stand at the top of the escalators dressed in a soldier costume, and they did a Christmas grotto. Anyone remember that?

There used to be a maternity wear shop called 'Formes' .... I went there when I was about 3 months pregnant and burst into tears when everything was too small. I think it was a French brand and catered for those who had a small neat bump and didn't put weight on everywhere ( like me!).

I loved Formes back in the day when I had cash

The Sweater Shop
Knickerbox
Tie Rack

There was an independent shop called Sarah Coggles where I live. It was amazing. Sold some great designer stuff, some Great Plains, etc. Such a cool shop. The woman who owned it was a force of nature. She had a desk on an atrium in the back of the shop, a steel-grey bob, red lipstick and a fuck-you attitude.

She bought the shop with her divorce settlement and named it after the woman her husband left her for

It ran aground after she died suddenly. A real shame. I do miss it.

Oh I didn't realise that's what happened to coggles! I used to order things from there online. She sounds fantastic.

I remember the grotto at Lewis's in Liverpool! And I remember I think it was in Owen Owen's when I was a kid there was a big toy horse you could sit on, I'm 39.

I think the brand still exists online.

I must have looked at it around that time and seen the website had gone, or something odd happened, but yes just seen it's there now.

I loved Tie Rack. Does it really not exist? I used to buy colourful or art ties from there and wear them as a teenager with shirts.

mumbod I remember Knickerbox, I used to work at the one in Hatfield Galleria!

The Lewis's in Bristol was taken over by John Lewis, but everyone still just called it Lewis's of course. I haven't been there for years but I think it's Primark now.

There was a Primark in Bristol in the late 70's. I used to browse in Chelsea Girl and Etam then buy the cheap copy in Primark. Hacking jackets and velvet dresses with white lacy collars, and later, rara skirts.

Morgan and Kookai...all the coolest girls at school shopped there!

Sock Shop?

Ravel
Chelsea Girl
C&A
Richard shops
School uniform shopping in Jones Brothers, Holloway
Dickens and Jones in the West End
Hennes (H&M isn't a patch on the original. ) didn't there used to be a huge one where Top Shop Oxford Circus in now?
...and Peter Jones opposite.
Swanky Modes, Camden Town
Mr Byright

Love this thread!

Miss Selfridge is a concession in Debenhams here

I remember Lewis's and Schofields in Leeds. Also Brown, Muffs in Bradford which became Rackhams. And Busby's which became Debenhams before burning down.

Loved Shelley's, great memories of buying my red wallaby shoes similar to these to go raving in s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/53/71/b4/5371b41a3b8d57cfd4224814c6b4c0ed.jpg
Mash on Oxford Road, Soul II Soul on Tottenham Court Road, K shoes, Miss Sixty, Cult Clothing, Contessa, Jean Jeanie, Richard shops, Ton sur Ton, Flip, QS Stores, and Red or Dead

@TartanDMs you in Cov? I used to love Rowfers, spent all my Saturday job money in there as a teen.

Who remembers "The one and only" in BHS..it was my favourite!

I've still got a gorgeous kookai dress which I doubt I'll ever fit again.
Was it just me that liked planet then?

Stolen from Ivor was a Manchester chain

A friend is Ivor's son - yes there was an actual Ivor!