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Reference code
HSJ
Title
Hogg, Sons & J B Johnstone Ltd
Date(s)
- [1900-1999] (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
3 volumes, 1 folder
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Administrative history
Savile Row and its environs, behind Regent Street, were renowned for their bespoke tailoring businesses. Boulter, Hepburn and Watts was apparently succeeded by Hogg, Sons & J B Johnstone Ltd; both companies had premises on Clifford Street (nos 10 and 19 respectively). The firm started in 1820 by John Brown Johnstone of Lockerbie, Scotland, developed as a civil and military tailors and was purchased from Johnstone's descendant by John Donaldson-Hudson in the 1940s. It acquired the firm of Hogg & Sons in the 1950s, and closed in 1999. The relationship with Tautz & Co Ltd (civil and sporting tailors, established in 1807), which had premises at no 19 Grafton Street, is unclear.
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Archival history
Presented to the Archive on the closure of Hogg, Sons & J B Johnstone Ltd in 1999.
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Scope and content
Records, 1900s-c1999, of tailoring firms in the Savile Row area, including three order/sample books for military and other uniforms and suits, containing fabric samples and notes on dress, some loosely inserted: one volume for Boulter, Hepburn & Watts, apparently succeeded by Hogg & Sons & J B Johnstone Ltd, from the 1900s onwards; another, including customer names, dating from the 1950s to 1993; and one for Tautz & Co Ltd, from the 1920s onwards. With undated letterheads for Hogg, Sons & J B Johnstone Ltd and Tautz & Co Ltd [late 20th century] and a brief typescript account of Hogg, Sons & J B Johnstone Ltd, c1999.
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This collection has been catalogued at item level.
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Status: Open. Access is subject to signing the Regulations for Access form, unless the records are restricted under the Data Protection Act 2018 or under exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000
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- English
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Description identifier
GB-1753-20180712100228-0451