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Trend Setting Tailoring comes to Goldthorpe

January 1967

Trend Setting Tailoring comes to Goldthorpe

“Fashions for men? Go away!”

“No listen to me, I tell you, this year it’s going to be Regency style, Slim fitting jackets, with side vents, soft colours, wide multi colour stripes. Trousers with the new parallel look, straight down from the knee.”

And so it goes. Fashions for London, Paris, Rome?

No fashions for South Yorkshire – Goldthorpe to be exact.

And who is majking this prediction?

Why Ken Ellis, a local man who went away to learn the tailoringtrade, climbed quite high on the tree of a large multiple tailoring chain, then came back and opened a tailor’s shop in Dioncaster Road, Goldthorpe