Mates by Irvine Sellars

Mates by Irvine Sellars was a British fashion retail chain founded by Irvine Sellar.

Mates started with one shop is Soho's Carnaby Street and grew to become became "Britain’s second-biggest fashion chain" with 90 shops in 1981, when it was sold to a South African investor.[1]

Sellar claimed that Mates was the first retail chain to sell men's and women's clothing under the same roof, and that they had 3,000 employees.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Bury, Rhiannon (27 February 2017). "Shard developer Irvine Sellar dies aged 82". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  2. ↑ Dawber, Alistair (6 July 2012). "Irvine Sellar: Blue-sky thinker". The Independent. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
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