Just having a shufti.  Were 'working class men' that 'wealthy customer' John Simons was catering to?  Did men spend more on their clothes then?  My own father - who came from mining stock but became an engineer - seemed to buy plenty of clothes: but, believe me, according to need.  Hector Powe/Collier type shopper.  Money, too, for records.  He'd never heard of 'Ivy League': later, on trips to New York or New England, he bought polo shirts, shoes, jeans in malls.  He did not think of himself as belonging to a class; did not ape his 'betters'; lived from the age of twenty five to when he died in a draughty house containing a few thousand LPs and CDs, a fair few books, Ercol furniture - and a framed photograph of Louis Armstrong on the wall.  'Working class'?  The jury is out on that one.  I no longer think of myself in that way.  Classless maybe.