Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Learning how to build up a window display

There were, I think it was 7 or 8 windows to dress … one two three four five … maybe 9 windows to dress and I started dressing the Baby Linen window.

Miss Guy came to see me, took me to the window, let me step in and she said, “I want you to take all this down” and then the things were hung on nylon threads and then she handed me a hammer, nylon thread and some pins and I was never without them for many, many years to come (laughs) and I didn’t know what display was.

I had no inkling. I thought it was a peacock spreading it’s feathers. It didn’t occur to me what display was and of course it was something I had to learn, but Miss Guy was really, really, really kind.

She used to come down, even though I’d heard her quite stern, you know with the people that worked there. You know she wouldn’t have anything go wrong. Things had to be absolutely perfect.

She was very kind and she showed me how to hang things from nylon thread.