Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Guidance from Miss Guy

I could usually tell when I’d finished the window that it definitely wasn’t right, and I needed to do something so I would then go back and I often used to stay over time when I was working part-time eventually, just to make sure I got the window finished, but when I was first there, I wasn’t may be able to do that quite so much.

When I very first did the windows, Miss Guy would come downstairs and look in the window and she’d say, “It’s a bit heavy on that side, can you do something about it?” so she kind of taught me to understand the balance, so if I went home and went past the window, at half past five and the shop was closed, and I then looked at it as I was either walking down or up, I would sometimes see and I’d think, you can see the pins at the back of the dress, oh God!

Because I’d walked up Union Street and looked in, or this just doesn’t look up right, the model’s too far in the front, so then I’d go home and have a sleepless night ‘till I could, get back in and alter it. So yes, you’re right, but there were numerous times of going back out and back in and changing things around.