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.

Ijustwannadance- quarters! I'm sure my friend said it has re-opened, I loved it in there. I used to love Wade Smith so much, I worked for the council in my early twenties and remember getting my first wages and going in and getting a DKNY handbag which i used until it fell apart!

Oh my god I've just remembered something- not a clothes shop but a burger bar and I'm pretty sure it was where the Lush shop/Holland and Barrett is now ( assuming you're still in Liverpool?)
And it had red? Plastic tables and chairs and meal deals like burger/chips and drink for £2, i have the word "Harvey's" in my head but I don't think it's that now.

Do you remember it? That will bug me all night...

Sophie's world

Chelsea girl is now RI and I loved Tammy

Zoflora, don't remember the burger bar but it's probably because it isn't somewhere I would've gone.

I live on the Wirral.

I bought a designer dress from Wade Smith. Tight fitting faded denim with a halter neck and fishtail back. I thought I looked bloody amazing in it! Cost £45 in the sale.

Sorry I should have said that the burger bar was there when I was around 13/14 so early nineties.
I used to go to nicer places in my twenties

Culpepper selling herbs etc

That's right sunbeam. All in Glasgow before the days of designer threads😄

Sunbeam and Marvellous - same city, same era. Do you remember Flip?

Gosh when did principles go?
Jane Norman?
Bay trading?

If they weren't in our town ( and they weren't) it hasn't happened!

At the minute all of them.. there's nothing about this year.

Flip!!! Yes!!!!

Aaaah man, Flip's gone????

Does anyone remember Philp too?

Phip, not Philp

It was a copycat shop on King's Rd, although had originally been another branch of Flip.

Peter Lord shoeshops!

Freeman Hardy Willis

Mansfield

Partners for stationery and office supplies!

There was a Peter Lord in The Murraygate in Dundee. I used to get school shoes there.
Also Trueform shoes. Are they defunct now too?

I remember Peter Lord shoe shop, there was one in Brent Cross

God yeah agent I remember Flip. It was in Queen St, massive place, I remember the smell! It was full of American clothes.

Got myself some checked shirts and a cool baseball jaikit😀

Nine West (and The Pier) are still open for business in the US

I miss Knickerbox.

Kaliko was great for work clothes, and when I was little I always envisioned wearing a Planet dress when I was Mother of the Bride

Ladybird children's clothes are still available online

Stationery box!! On Lord street, Liverpool.

THE place to go for back to school supplies

Ah, happy memories of shopping in Liverpool - I have been reading this thread and hoping someone would mention Solitaire as I couldn't remember the name of the place! Before it got burnt out moved to the Precinct you frequently had to queue to get into it. When you were going round, there was someone with a microphone trying to restock so there would be a constant background of mumble 2 10's etc.

Also remember Now (had a bag from there that I loved), Kumars, and lots of the other Liverpool shops mentioned. I have a vague recollection of Lady at St John but I don't think we ever went in there!

Chelsea Girl - loved it! Or for posh stuff when small, Nanettes!

I remember the smell of Flip ... used to go for a look round but never bought anything from there.

Used to go to Culpepers in the Mathew Street shopping centre when that was built. I am ancient though, I remember the market in St John's precinct being damaged by fire and we had to buy our clothes from the stalls set up in a car park!

For the truly ancient, I remember not only Blacklers and the other department stores in the City Centre ( Lewis's, Binns, Owen Owen, BHS, C&A, Littlewoods) but also Frosts in Walton (ask your grandparents!)

Whenever I went into GHL I was always in the wrong building for whatever I wanted. Never quite got the hang of that place.

Remember Flip in Glasgow smell too - the smell of mothballs and 400 pairs of unwashed jeans . The downstairs bit was fab too, fur coats.

Remember Saxone?!

Has anyone mentioned Fiorucci?