Jane Caldow – My Mum ran the Jaeger Boutique

Jane: At the Jaeger Boutique, they would come and the regulars would … there was a lovely lady called Peggy Golding who worked there for years and my mother ran the Jaeger shop and they would go up to London on buying trips and things and I used to go with them on occasionally for the day, and she was super.

We’ve got pictures of her modelling at a Morgan’s Fashion Show at the Island Sailing Club actually, Peggy. So, the Jaeger Boutique again, people would come in and of course you had the mannequin models in the windows which were made by the firm Adel Rootstein, which is a really famous mannequin company, and they were based on the real models of the day like Twiggy and stuff, so you got … I think some of those are over at the Velvet Pig now, aren’t they, the mannequins?

Simon: Where was the Jaeger … you said something ‘F’, 30F?

Jane: It was 24F. You know where Ladbrokes is, that was Russell and Bromley’s and it where the Spa, Kya, it was the Kya Spa place and you went in and you had all the fashions there, very nice windows and then down in the Basement was where the safe was and then you went out through the back and there was a little garden at the back as well.