Where did your parents buy your clothes growing up?

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Matalan

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i still can visualise going to Oxford street, John Lewis and the entire ground floor seemed to be rol after rol of material, as many people made their own clothing

Marks and Spencer John Lewis occasionally bhs. My mum was a wonderful dressmaker/taylor and made a lot. My gran use to buy a lot as well from a local “ladies” shop called Moores, I loved going there with her, it had a little haberdashery department downstairs with a baby department in the next room, then upstairs ladies and children, very select ! I felt very grown up going in there

What a fun thread ! Shout out to @Delphigirl for Jean Machine!

C&A, Clothkits, Jumpers, The Family Album and the slightly more trendier one when I got a bit older. All shops that have gone now. Jumpers (I think it was called that, it was a slightly up market Sweater shop with a show jumping horse as a logo) was great for cricket jumpers and I loved my cricket jumpers from there.

My mum also made a lot of my clothes and knitted a lot of my jumpers.

John Lewis was also a staple.

Clothkits, i can still feel the itch of their woollen dresses!!! We did used to go into London I think John Lewis and i was never allowed jeans.

From a children’s clothes shop in the Whitechapel Road called Evada. Really good quality clothes. Underwear from M&S and t-shirts, shorts etc from the Ladybird shop in Oxford Street. Shoes from Lilley & Skinner, also in Oxford Street.

This plus a range called Ladybird, from Woolworths maybe?!

For special occasions, Next. My mum bought me the loveliest wool circular skirt from there.

Marks & Spencer, C&A and BHS!

Yes Ladybird was woolworths they had great clothes for kids.

Underwear and nightwear from Ethel Austin.

BHS, C&A and Tammy Girl. East Street market in London as well.

Jumble sales - everything 10p, charity shops, hideous hand-me-downs from the neighbour. We weren’t poor!

First time I remember going on a shopping trip for clothes was for a school trip when I was 13. Not long after that I got a small allowance and started buying my own clothes. I used to shop at Chelsea Girl, Etam, Dorothy Perkins, C and A had a good teenage section. All long gone now, I expect.

But mostly I remember the jumble sales, sacks of clothes dumped onto trestle tables in unsorted heaps!

Little woods and Kay's catalogues. Also a lot of hand me downs from older cousins (which was problematic as my cousin was taller and more athletic in build whereas I was tiny and built like a twiglet. Years of wearing badly fitting clothes....)

My mum made a lot of my clothes, and was also a Clothkits devotee.

Littlewoods catalogue, BHS, C&A for basics - Marks if she was feeling flush.

She also hosted/attended a fair few Pippa Dee parties. When I was 7 she told me I could pick any dress I liked from the rail in the living room. Obviously I picked the only one she hated, an awful age-inappropriate one-shouldered monstrosity in pale purple polyester.

Grattans catalogue, jumble sales, charity shops and the market. Hand me downs from cousins/neighbours that were already quite worn out. Money was tight when I was growing up.

Shoes from the shop in town - not Clarks but another place that would measure your feet and was much cheaper.

I'd spend birthday or Christmas money in Dorothy Perkins or C&A.

C&A. BHS, Littlewoods. She tried to buy from charity shops but I was really embarrassed. Imagine at school wearing someone's Auntie Brenda's jumper!

Later when I first worked I would buy from Van Allen and Dorothy Perkins.

My mum used to make them for the three of us or a lady up the road who was much better off than us (not hard) used to send a suitcase of her daughter's outgrown clothes. That was the 60s though.

I had lots of older female cousins so I used to get a big bin bag full of clothes every so often.
I absolutely loved rummaging through those bags of 'new' clothes!

Target, Coles and Kmart - I lived abroad.

Marks and Spencer, BHS, Adams, C&A, Kays catalogue, Woolworths. When I was older it was Tammy Girl, New Look, Dorothy Perkins. When I got to about 14 I loved Miss Selfidge and Bay Trading as well as the large alternative market in Birmingham where you could get band hoodies and super baggy jeans.

In the 70s my clothes (not many) came from Ladybird and Adams and were also hand made. My shoes always Russel and Bromley's but had to do for everything and were ugly.
I spent my first Saturday-job pay check on some stilettos that I couldn't walk in!

C&A, maybe Debenhams, Tammy Girl when I was a teenager. Was there a similar one called Chelsea Girl? Pretty sure I was in there a fair bit. I had a friend who got tracksuits from ‘Dash’ which I remember thinking was very sophisticated at the time. 😂

Also just remembered Clothkits - does anyone else remember it? I’m not sure if it was national or just in my region. It sold packs of fabrics and patterns to make your own clothes, cushion covers etc. My mum was quite handy with a sewing machine so we shopped there a fair bit. Ah, nostalgia.

Kylie was Mckays wasn't it?
It was the tween/ teen range.

Oh my mum/aunties/neighbours had pippa Dee parties in the 70s I swear it was just an "excuse" for women to go out without husbands!