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Mother Wouldn't Like It
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1964-1974
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Shirt label founded in the mid-1960s by Bryan King. He arrived in London from Australia in 1961 and was active in theatre, launching Theatrescope, a lunch-time theatre company. In 1964. He designed shirts, dresses and accessories under the label 'Mother Wouldn't Like It' which he sold at Kensington Market and also at a showroom in Bond Street. The garments were made in Queensway, at the Whiteleys Department Store building by seamstresses, including one woman who had come to England from Sri Lanka in 1965 and worked there for two years making the brightly coloured shirts and sewing labels into garments. King died aged 39 in 1974.
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Obituary: Bryan King, The Stage and Television Today, 17 October 1974, p. 36.
Luke Jarvis, Mother Wouldn't Like It, Honey, March 1968, https://lizeggleston.com/2017/11/07/mother-wouldnt-like-it/ [accessed 22 November 2021]
Personal correspondence in Object File for 2017.354.6
Luke Jarvis, Mother Wouldn't Like It, Honey, March 1968, https://lizeggleston.com/2017/11/07/mother-wouldnt-like-it/ [accessed 22 November 2021]
Personal correspondence in Object File for 2017.354.6