Falmers

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Falmers

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  • Falmer Jeans Ltd

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      Dates of existence

      nd [1962-1998]

      History

      The company was founded in the early 1960s by Tom and June Easterford (they had met in 1955 working at the Lee Cooper factory in Harold Wood, Essex) but they left and began another business soon afterwards. By the 1970s Falmer Jeans were described as Britain's number one maker of jeans. They went into administration in 1998 and the brand name was purchased by Matalan.

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      Westminster Menswear Archive

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          Sources

          'Mrs T visits the "jeanius" people', Finchley Times, 30 June 1977, Remarks visiting Finchley (Falmer Jeans), https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103408 [accessed 11 June 2020].
          Mau Spencer, 'How Riding Jeans are Made', Classic Scooterist, 27 September 2016, https://www.classicscooterist.com/how-riding-jeans-are-made/ [accessed 11 June 2020]
          'Falmer's miseries add to jeans blues,' Marketing Week, 22 October 1998.
          Camilla Palmer, 'CDP reveals risque work for Falmer jeans', 16 February 2001, Campaign, https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/cdp-reveals-risque-work-falmer-jeans/18815 [11 June 2020]

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