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Thread: Shopping for Clericals in London
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Bookworm
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Greetings! I hope this thread is in the right place. I'm visiting London for a few days early in November and would like to shop for some new clergy shirts and perhaps look at some nice stoles etc.
I live in the Antipodes and the only shop in town that stocks clerical shirts sells cheap and nasty ones that are like boys' high school shirts. So, I've tended to buy online from overseas, but shipping is expensive and it would be nice (for once) to try on a range of brands for size and fit!
Can anyone recommend any shops in central London that ideally sell a range of brands (that make shirts for women) and would be worth a visit?
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Barefoot Friar
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I shall be watching this with interest because my sister is visiting London the week before Christmas, and if someone suggests something promising, I might have to ask Santa to shop there. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Charles Read
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Try these:
tat shop A
tat shop B
Just round the corner from each other.
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Custard
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tat shop 3
Most British clergy get this stuff online / mail order.
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Emendator Liturgia
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Hi there fellow Antipodean.
I have my shirts (clerical and otherwise) made-to-measure by a wonderful tailor in Hong Kong - only too happy to pass on his details to you. Including postage, he sends me pure cotton shirts for about $55-$65. And, his black clergy shirts don't fade into a horrible grey or rust colour like they do with other brands.
If you have a clerical shirt that really fits you well, send it to him and he'll copy it exactly. Better still, on your way over, drop in and be measured up (while predominantly a male tailor, he's done some marvellous blouses etc for my mother).
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Fifi
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Faith House Bookshop has been closed for years! But, in the basement of Faith House, you will find Watts & Co.. A couple of doors along (if it is still there), you will also find a branch of this lot.
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Poppy
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You could take a train to Crawley and tat heaven
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Circuit Rider
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quote:
Originally posted by Emendator Liturgia:
Hi there fellow Antipodean.
I have my shirts (clerical and otherwise) made-to-measure by a wonderful tailor in Hong Kong - only too happy to pass on his details to you. Including postage, he sends me pure cotton shirts for about $55-$65. And, his black clergy shirts don't fade into a horrible grey or rust colour like they do with other brands.
If you have a clerical shirt that really fits you well, send it to him and he'll copy it exactly. Better still, on your way over, drop in and be measured up (while predominantly a male tailor, he's done some marvellous blouses etc for my mother).
That's a pretty attractive price (doing the conversion to AU$ to US$. Sending PM for contact info.
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Circuit Rider
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quote:
Originally posted by Barefoot Friar:
I shall be watching this with interest because my sister is visiting London the week before Christmas, and if someone suggests something promising, I might have to ask Santa to shop there.
You and me both BF. What we really need to do is hide in little CR#6's luggage and take the first train to Westminster after landing.
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Jengie jon
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quote:
Originally posted by Poppy:
You could take a train to Crawley and tat heaven
To explain to those not familiar with UK layout. Crawley is in the greater London connurbation, near Gatwick Airport. It is not as though Poppy is suggesting that you come oop North.
Jengie
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Bookworm
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Thanks so much everyone that's brilliant! I knew you would be the people who would know.
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Charles Read
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Thanks Fifi - those were the places I was trying to mention!
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Emendator Liturgia
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
It is not as though Poppy is suggesting that you come oop North.
Hmm, some of their vestments looks like it has come straight out of Poland, etc (see ebay.)
If one was to com oop north, I think I'd be heading more for Jesus and Mary in Newcastle, i.e. J&M!
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sebby
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I have heard that Vanpoulles is just a little tacky and not quite.
J and M (who are now By Appointment to Her Majesty the Queen) are apparently just excellent, helpful and reasonable and good quality. And in the North.
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Angloid
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There's a difference between clerical street wear and liturgical vestments, aka tat. Some firms are better at the former than the latter. Wippels are predominantly tailors so OK if you want (expensive) shirts, cassocks etc; J & M similar but cheaper and better value. Vanpoulles are good for run of the mill vestments and statues, tending towards the naff/tatty end of the spectrum; similarly Ormsby's of Scarisbrick (near Ormskirk, West Lancs). Watts is at the quality end of untatty tat, but predominantly traditional brocades etc. Hayes and Finch (head office Liverpool but branches all over the country) are good for general church supplies like candles, and hardware like chalices. But if you want bespoke and 'designer' chasubles and stoles, it's best to find an independent artist, and have a rich sponsor.
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sebby
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I don't quite see the point of grey clerical shirts. If the standard black ones are bought, they become grey after a few washes.
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Percy B
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The bookshop next to Westminster Cathedral has a range of clergy wear as well, and its a really good bookshop.
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Meerkat
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I was very happy with my cassock, cotta and girdle (cassock made to measure) from Wippells in London.
Still am, in fact!
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sebby
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gosh you must be well off.
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