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Bridie wrote:I worked weekends in Arnotts (was it still called Simpson's as well then?) in Sauchiehall Street when I was at Uni and Sir Hugh Fraser (whoooooooooo) came down the escalators and waved over to me - the mere minion - on the lingerie counter

when I say lingerie we're talking large beige girdles and large industrial cream bras

hungryjoe wrote:My dad paid 500 quid for a suit out of there, in the 70s. Daft old cunt.

Mark N wrote:

hungryjoe wrote:My dad paid 500 quid for a suit out of there, in the 70s. Daft old cunt.

Eeek - that's the equivalent of over 3 grand in today's money (at least according to online inflation calculators)

moonbeam wrote:To have an account and shop in R.W. Forsyth at the corner of Gordon and Union Street - now that was class!
I used to go to their January sales. Great bargains. Lewis's January sale downstairs was like a super jumble sale.
But you could get bargains.We dont seem to have these anymore. I was one of the "nutters" who stood outside Forsyths at 7.00am - I was 6th in the queue- to buy a gents suit one late December about 40 years ago.I can
still feel the cold now!!I had a interview for a new job in January and needed a "posh" suit.Got a suit and the job so it worked!!! Carswells was another good shop for mens clothes in the January sales.I always found Rowans in Buchanan Street a tad too expensive but who recalls the gents coffee place in it. It was always full of "office" gent types supposidly working at goodness knows what.Then Frasers had a lunch place where models used to show off dresses to the "ladies who lunched". Had a girl friend at uni who used to do a couple of these lunch time fashion shows between classes at uni.She got some sort of discount which seemed to benefit most of the girls in her year at uni!

Fat Cat wrote:That female is creepy looking.

Lone Groover wrote:Slightly orf topic ....

Anyone seen Spanish fans on sale in Glasgow ?

Not for me guv ! Honest !

cheers

hazy wrote:

Lone Groover wrote:Slightly orf topic ....

Anyone seen Spanish fans on sale in Glasgow ?

Not for me guv ! Honest !

cheers

They only had Barcelona fans left . I was on the lookout for a Sevilla one myself.

robertpool wrote:

moonbeam wrote:To have an account and shop in R.W. Forsyth at the corner of Gordon and Union Street - now that was class!
I used to go to their January sales. Great bargains. Lewis's January sale downstairs was like a super jumble sale.
But you could get bargains.We dont seem to have these anymore. I was one of the "nutters" who stood outside Forsyths at 7.00am - I was 6th in the queue- to buy a gents suit one late December about 40 years ago.I can
still feel the cold now!!I had a interview for a new job in January and needed a "posh" suit.Got a suit and the job so it worked!!! Carswells was another good shop for mens clothes in the January sales.I always found Rowans in Buchanan Street a tad too expensive but who recalls the gents coffee place in it. It was always full of "office" gent types supposidly working at goodness knows what.Then Frasers had a lunch place where models used to show off dresses to the "ladies who lunched". Had a girl friend at uni who used to do a couple of these lunch time fashion shows between classes at uni.She got some sort of discount which seemed to benefit most of the girls in her year at uni!

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