Where did your parents buy your clothes growing up?

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Matalan

What Every Woman Wants or jumble sales.

Hand made, handed down or from a market stall

If mum was buying:

BHS
M&S
Freeman's, Janet Frazer and Kays catalogues
Home made (i remember DM cutting up 1950s circular skirts to make DSIS and I little dresses)

If i had my way:

Clockhouse from C&A.
Chelsea Girl
Dolcis
Freeman Hardy and Willis
Eastville market (where IKEA is now in Bristol).

Laura Ashley, Jacadi, Mothercare, C&A, Adams, Monsoon

Coincidentally had the chat this morning with my mum as I was telling her about how expensive baby clothes can be!

Tammy girl
Ladybird (Woolworths)
Marks and Spencer?

Clarks (shoes)

Second hand and home made mostly. School uniform came from British Home Stores although my mum also bought swathes of red gingham and made my school dresses herself. She made little puff sleeves and added bows etc. No idea where she found the time because she also worked and had no help at home.

Pippa Dee parties, like Tupperware but clothes. I remember my mum hosting one and I got to try on and 'model' some of the clothes

M&S, BHS, C&A if I was lucky. I was not a fashion icon.

Marks and spencer
C&A
The co-op
John Lewis
BHS
Debenhams

M&S, hand me downs,thrifty ( does anyone else remember thrifty? ) start rite shoes

M and S were too posh for us when we were young.

I remember a lot of Mini Boden, especially pyjamas. My mum was a catalogue-aholic as we lived in the middle of nowhere.

My mum always bought the next size up in the sales, my favourite was a black t shirt with a neon angel fish on! ( God bless the 80s!)

Also Debenhams. I had a nice striped top from there I wore loads.

1970s/early 80s
BHS
M and S
Clothkits
Littlewoods (store not catalogue)
Jumble sales
Mum made a lot of our clothes and knitted our cardigans/jumpers

My grandma was a fantastic knitter so I had some amazing cardigans and jumpers (Thomas tank engine, strawberry shortcake etc)
When Matalan first came out you had to have a membership card and it was like an end of lines shop that carried all sorts not like it is now, we used to buy lee jeans from there and random clothes
And BHS sometimes

Cloth Kits, jumble sales, handknits and any handmedowns my mum could scrounge from her friends! Most things were passed down through my siblings too. I don't really remember buying much on the high street...until I was about 11 and discovered puffball skirts in Tammy Girl!

Debenhams. My Mum and I loved nothing better than a long browse around Debenhams. She worked there in the eighties doing seasonal Christmas work demonstrating Rowena irons and coffee machines. I used to wander round trying clothes and go and chat to her.

I cried when it closed down a couple of years ago. She died in 2013 and that Debenhams had kept a tiny bit of her memory alive.

(also What Everys -shout out to all the other Scots on this thread!- Littlewoods and Clockhouse at C&A.)

Wow, this thread has truly reinforced the Mumsnet middle class demographic!

Mine were random hand me downs / from the market. I think I had a new coat from c&a once, the thrill!

Mothercare catalogue. They did clothes for kids way past baby/toddler.

Charity shops and hand me downs from friends mostly I think. A few things on credit with a catalogue.

Early childhood my mum made a lot of our clothes and was a great knitter. lived abroad so shops you wouldn’t have heard of.
In pre-teen / early teen years
Peter jones
benetton
school uniform from harrods
jeans from Jean Machine on the kings Road
maybe a bit of M&S but apart from pants I hated m&s it was all somehow slightly wrong
also shopped a lot in the US so Ralph Lauren kids, Bloomingdale’s, school shoes were always Bass Weejuns

Same.

and BHS.

Clothes were mostly hand me downs or second hand/charity shops, but sometimes for birthday or Christmas presents we would buy new and went to Tammy Girl, QS, Dorothy Perkins. Oh & there was a place called Port Maid that I liked. River Island, Miss Selfridge, M&S and Next were "posh" (unaffordable) so we'd browse for fun but not buy. School shoes were always Clarks. Can't remember where we got other shoes from though - I can see the shop in my mind but I can't remember the name!

C&A.
Gosh showing my age.
My Mum knitted cardigans and jumpers.
My Dad was brilliant with the old singer treadle sewing machine.. he made a dresses and once made me some lime green hot pants with a bib when l was 14.