60s Shopping - clothes
We asked "where did you shop for clothes in the sixties?"
Many people still made their own clothes in the sixties. One lady told us that she made her own dresses from bright, flowery material. Another said that "My mum made all my dresses or I got them from the tallyman who visited the village". Popular shops for ladies' clothes in the 60s were Marks & Spencer, C & A, the Co-op or Lewis's. More up-market were the London department stores.
For men it was the era of the made-to-measure suit. Most people in our survey went to Burton's or John Collier.
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