Did you buy yourself a Christmas present this year? I admit it. I did. It’s always nice to open up the gifts from ones nearest and dearest on Christmas day but you can get a few too many festive socks and ill-fitting jumpers.  Anyone who has queued up at the Marks & Spencer returns counter […]

Historian and well known author Mike Brown launches his new book “CC41 UTILITY CLOTHING – The label that Transformed British Fashion” in November. Here he gives a brief overview of how Utility clothing came about. The CC41 Utility logo, or the ‘two cheeses’ as it was known at the Board of Trade, was probably the […]

  At first glance, Utility Clothing is quite a niche area and perhaps it’s not surprising that no-one has ever published a decent book on the subject. But in actual fact the audience for such a book is wider than you might think. Collectors of Utility Clothing may not fill Wembley Stadium but the interest […]

The Onesie is nothing new – Churchill was a big fan, but there seems no barriers to the popularity of this ‘new’ garment as it transcends both class and age. Grandmothers wanting something warm and comfortable to wear around the house, young mums rushing to take the kids to school, and children themselves who find […]

The first thing I did when I got back from the War & Peace revival (military vehicle show) was have a good long bath. Last year it was mud, this year it was the fine dust that seems to get in every orifice. If you’ve never been to the show then its well worth a […]