I bought only a few items from Austins as it was very expensive for an 17-year-old apprentice in the spring of 64.
First thing I bought was a black & white gingham check seersucker jacket, later I had green/grey/blue madras check jacket and a few Arrow button-downs.
Difficult to recall prices.... I think the jackets were about £17.50-£20 and the shirts roughly £4.
Around the same time Cecil Gee a few doors up had oxford cloth bds and tabs for less than £2. 

As we know Charlie, ALO, Georgie and Eric all shopped there early on, I imagine by 65 Eric was moving in a different direction, probably Charlie & ALO were buying  their ivy threads in US.

Last edited by Chris_H (2010-09-12 04:12:52)

Not really, I just mostly shopped in town.

This is the stuff the troops like.  More please, more.

I have a couple of cousins that would be  the same age as Chris. We still meet up for a few drinks. Never really talk too much about clothes although in the extended family dressing well is a given with all the males and it goes down the generations. My cousins grew up in East London Poplar, Bethnal Green, Stepney Green. In the 60s there were Jewish tailors everywhere. They didn't buy off the peg because it wasn't difficult to buy material and get suits made up. The American influence may have been less for them but even today they still wear button down shirts, sometimes Harrington jackets, pea coats and other clothes we might recognise as Ivy.
I will have to ask them where they shopped back in the 60s. I know they knew of Austins. One cousin owned the first pair of Levi's I ever saw back in about 63. He now refuses to wear jeans and tends to look down on me when I turn up in Lee selvedge jeans