Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Memories of Miss Pack

Simon: So, ‘Miss Packs’ or ‘Miss Pack’ felt like well this is totally different to the type of clothes we sell there.

Christine: We were so excited when it opened. We had the most fabulous models that Miss Guy bought from a firm that became very famous with all the London … Adel Rootstein models, and instead of being just stagnant, they were posed and we had a famous … I can’t think of her name now, a big fuzzy haired model from the ‘60s and she was posed like this, and we had to put her together and they just posed in different ways. We had Twiggy, they were …

Simon: They actually had mannequins of famous …

Christine: … mannequins of different people, yes. Twiggy was very, very popular ‘cos she was tiny and then, I can’t think of this … she was a very, very famous … something like Veruschka, a famous black model with big hair and it was the fact that you could pose these Adel Rootstein models in lots of different poses.

Simon: ‘Cos of the way their arms were jointed or …

Christine: Yes, and they just were standing in totally different poses and they could put their arms up in the air because that’s the way they had developed their arms had been so that you could make them look as if they were throwing their arms up in the air. So, that was fabulous, ‘Miss Packs’ was the ultimate teenage place to go on a Saturday. Mrs Barrow had that … Miss Guy had that kind of foresight.