Whur did ye get yir claes fae?

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Postby tobester » Fri May 04, 2007 8:52 pm

Now - Primark, Matalan, Asda and Tesco

Past - Burtons (in Partick) and used to get school trousers from a place in trongate, cant remember its name, used to have caterpillar games machine 10p a go
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Postby bluepeterno1 » Fri May 04, 2007 9:11 pm

Ma poor auld mammy used to take us to buy our clothes with a provy cheque,and spend the rest of the year paying it up,there used to be some great shops in Argyle street ,and it was like an adventure going with her for new clothes , where have all these shops gone now , all there is along it now are 2 bob shops everything for a pound , me and one of my pals went into a shop with big signs saying everything for a pound , he lifted a pair of brand new allimlinim stepladders and took them up to the till for a laugh with a nicker in his hand and demanded them ,what a laugh.

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Postby Graham » Fri May 04, 2007 9:33 pm

There used to be a great secondhand clothes shop in Jocelyn Square, run by a couple of elderly brothers. Can't remember the name of it but they used to supply Flip and people like that wholesale. You'd see something in their shop for a couple of quid one day and thirty in Flip the next week. It was a great source of mod-type suits and stuff like that for pennies in the 80s :D
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Postby Mori » Fri May 04, 2007 9:53 pm

My Mum used to buy my school uniform from Dands on Langlands road Govan.

I used to go to C&A /Marks & Spencers for esentials.

Skint In Union st for my leather bombers.

Alexanders... St enoch sq for my suits.

Gordons Shoe shop in in Stockwell st multi layerd/colored platform shoes +(Doc martins) chelsea boots

oh aye and City cash tailors trongate. :P 8)
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Postby Field Marshall Shug » Fri May 04, 2007 10:02 pm

My mum got mine from Adams, MacKays and What Everyone Wants.

Terrytowel day-glo socks, cheap-version Big Country shirts and jeans which she ironed with a crease down the middle!
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Postby Josef » Fri May 04, 2007 10:31 pm

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akbar del piombo wrote:anyone remember marks duman tailors in saltmarket?


Their address was 107 Saltmarket, which is halfway down on the left hand side from Glasgow Cross, just before Steel Street


I have a notion that that is where I used to buy my woollen overcoats and demob suits from. Pay no more than a tenner :) . No belt loops, but buttons for braces.

There is a photo of the shop on here somewhere. If I find it before you do I will post a link.
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Postby AlanM » Sat May 05, 2007 6:07 am

Used to get dragged along to Birs' or Hoey's.
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Postby pwm437 » Sat May 05, 2007 6:46 am

Josef wrote:
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akbar del piombo wrote:anyone remember marks duman tailors in saltmarket?


Their address was 107 Saltmarket, which is halfway down on the left hand side from Glasgow Cross, just before Steel Street


I have a notion that that is where I used to buy my woollen overcoats and demob suits from. Pay no more than a tenner :) . No belt loops, but buttons for braces.

There is a photo of the shop on here somewhere. If I find it before you do I will post a link.



Buttons for braces.......total class Josef.


Anybody remember going to the Granite House, or Sellyns, which was a sort of working class Copland & Lye
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Postby eltor2ga » Sat May 05, 2007 10:04 am

City Cash Tailors - I think they had a couple of shops around the saltmarket and Trongate area.

Crazy House - I seem to remember it had some kind of models on display upstairs.

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Jack the Lad (I remember buying a pair of waffle trousers and a ski jumper there, with my first pay packet)

I also remember buying jeans from a shop, upstairs in Virgin Records, Union St. I think it was called Thrifty's.
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Postby AlanM » Sat May 05, 2007 7:25 pm

eltor2ga, it was Concept Man which went with Chelsea Girl and went on to become what we now know as River Island
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Postby tobester » Sat May 05, 2007 7:33 pm

I think the shop i was thinking of was Jack The Lad i remember it had an unusual name. Used to get decent school trousers from them.
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Postby Peekay » Sat May 05, 2007 8:51 pm

The bloke down the back of mes' washin' line!

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Postby cybers » Mon May 07, 2007 3:09 am

Every where from paddy's market for playwear to jack the lad for school wear.
I would have to take pelters at school because my playwear was usually sourced at Paddy's but knew full well where their mothers got their stuff from so it never bothered me too much.

Besides I was a typical 70/80's kid usually a bit grubby with the erse hanging out the trousers where I got snagged on the barbed wire exploring.

Though my mother usually did her own knitting....Hated the Icelandic jumper phase she and loads of others went through in the 80's
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Postby Dexter St. Clair » Mon May 07, 2007 10:42 am

cybers wrote:Though my mother usually did her own knitting....Hated the Icelandic jumper phase she and loads of others went through in the 80's


Can she do Fair Isle? I fancy going back to my French mod days.
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Postby Graham » Mon May 07, 2007 11:34 am

cybers wrote:Though my mother usually did her own knitting....Hated the Icelandic jumper phase she and loads of others went through in the 80's


That reminds me of the old bit of grafitti - "My mother made me a homosexual" under which someone else had written "if I get her the wool would she make me one too?" ::):
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