Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Dressing a window

I remember being terrified of having to climb up a ladder because they were really wobbly, but the only way that you could get the effect that you wanted as I learnt over the months, that I needed to get an effect by going outside and looking at what I was putting in the window and realising it was either top heavy or there was nothing at the back, nothing at the top and putting that into practice about the ‘A’ shape or triangular shape for display was quite hard because when you’d … for instance I learnt that you should start at the very top so whatever you had at the top either had to be standing on something or hung and more towards the back.

So, all those things came into play as I began to dress each window, would use different things. For instance, the Millinery Department I’d have to go up and choose coordinating hats to go in the Millinery Department which is French Franks island window.

You entered from the back and people would come and go through into Packs that way, usually knocking on the window, so that window had to be dressed from the point of view of them coming out as well as going in.