Clothes catalogues

willfarmerman

What was the name of the company that sold clothes. Via catalogue in the 90s. Catalogue. In nearly every house in the country?

Gongoozler

Kays catalogue?

Talib Fiasco

The Farmers Journal?

weldoninhio

willfarmerman wrote: »

What was the name of the company that sold clothes. Via catalogue in the 90s. Catalogue. In nearly every house in the country?

Family Album

Chancer3001

Argos.

Sugradh

Guinness book of records.

Ireland's own.


That's the complete collection of books catalogues in my house

delw

Victoria's Secret?

JuliusCaesar

Littlewoods?

willfarmerman

Family album is the one I think. I never remember anyone at home buying out of it but they would arrive periodically. Wife remembers same but neither of us could name it

Chucken

Oxendales.

groucho marx

Oxendales

freshpopcorn

Family Album or Oxendales.

The Dagda

Shhhh don't tell the farmer about Amazon.

Yeah Family Album is good for clothes, reasonable too... :shiftyeyes:

Chucken

Family album became Kays....or the other way around

wazky

Whatever one had the latest shtyles from the Milan or Paris.

Stavros Murphy

This thread is heading for knickers. And over shoulder boulder holders...ahh, the mammories.

holystungun9

Gongoozler wrote: »

Kays catalogue?

Def responsible for my knicker fetish!

Chucken

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Argos.

Sugradh

What was the name of the other school thing like that?
I think it began with the letter "A"....I think?

Chucken

Chucken wrote: »

What was the name of the other school thing like that?
I think it began with the letter "A"....I think?

No. It began with "S".
Siamsa.

Now I'll sleep easy

Davarus Walrus

Zara are knocking out top class style at the moment. Very modern.

Candy_Girl

Family Album ...you could buy a pair of knickers by the week.

JuliusCaesar

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

Littlewoods?

I remember littlewoods was the pools. Do they do that anymore?

Jeez, I'm getting old!

fineso.mom

Chucken wrote: »

What was the name of the other school thing like that?
I think it began with the letter "A"....I think?

Are you thinking of the alphabet,,definitely began with A then lots of other letters and it used to finish with zed but now it finishes with zee

Sir Arthur Daley

I used love the clothes collection on the Playboys magazines in the 90s.

Molester Stallone

Chucken wrote: »

No. It began with "S".
Siamsa.

Now I'll sleep easy

We had Sonas as well in primary school

Mickey H

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

This thread is heading for knickers. And over shoulder boulder holders...ahh, the mammories.

Surprised it took 15 posts to get to the knickers.

Stavros Murphy

Mickey H wrote: »

Surprised it took 15 posts to get to the knickers.

They're very shy around here.

BillyMitchel

Defo family album. Clothes were a lot more expensive too.

Go looking for the knickers and bras section and go pull the willy off myself at the sight of a nipple. For all you younger folk that was the way before we had the Internet.

willfarmerman

willfarmerman wrote: »

Family album is the one I think. I never remember anyone at home buying out of it but they would arrive periodically. Wife remembers same but neither of us could name it

They now trade as Littlewoods.

Beasty

Family Album - their head office was in O'Connell Street. Kays was a sister company but I think that by the time they expanded into Ireland they basically issued the same catalogue with a different cover. Then there was another sister company, Morses, who sold door to door. In 1998 the parent company took over Argos, and in 2003 the mail order business was sold off to the Barclay brothers who then combined it with Littlewoods. Argos took over Homebase around 2001 and now both form part of the Home Retail Group

Cienciano

Beasty wrote: »

Family Album - their head office was in O'Connell Street. Kays was a sister company but I think that by the time they expanded into Ireland they basically issued the same catalogue with a different cover. Then there was another sister company, Moses, who sold door to door. In 1998 the parent company took over Argos, and in 2003 the mail order business was sold off to the Barclay brothers who then combined it with Littlewoods. Argos took over Homebase around 2001 and now both form part of the Home Retail Group

And I used to fap at the bra section

Beasty

Cienciano wrote: »

And I used to fap at the bra section

Well here's something especially for you - a page from the 1972 "Great Universal" UK catalogue

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz195/BeastyofNCD/mailordercat1.jpg?t=1292591617

Beasty

Beasty wrote: »

Well here's something especially for you - a page from the 1972 "Great Universal" UK catalogue

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz195/BeastyofNCD/mailordercat1.jpg?t=1292591617

Brilliant! Love it!

Beasty

Beasty wrote: »

Well here's something especially for you - a page from the 1972 "Great Universal" UK catalogue

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz195/BeastyofNCD/mailordercat1.jpg?t=1292591617

I'm off to bargain alerts to buy that bullet!

Beasty

Back in the 70's the Autumn/Winter mail order catalogue was keenly awaited in many households (particularly those of us with limited access to shops). The last couple of hundred pages or so were devoted to Christmas and in particular had all the latest toys. It arrived around August time but in our family it was pretty much dropping to bits by the end of October when we as kids had continually thumbed through it trying to work out what we might be getting for XMas

endplate

Studio cards was another catalog that used to do the rounds

ringadingding

When the new Kay's or little woods catalogue hit the door mat, well my pecker rose and it was stealthily snuck to the bathroom, where I would pull the lad off myself over the faintest hint of pubic shadowing or the edge of an aereola.

The good old days of simplicity.

Now it takes 7 nuns and a dog to get me going

Mickey H

Beasty wrote: »

Well here's something especially for you - a page from the 1972 "Great Universal" UK catalogue

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz195/BeastyofNCD/mailordercat1.jpg?t=1292591617

That needs an NSFW NSFA* tag.


* Not Safe For Anything

branie2

Family album - my introduction to the bikini ;-)

branie2

In one Family Album edition from the 90s, the bikini models gave us a back view

Ghost Buster

weldoninhio wrote: »

Family Album

And the underwear section got me through my teenage years in 80s Ireland

topper75

The binding gum might fade over time. But the glue between the pages, never.

branie2

There is a website dedicated about old Kays catalogue, yet none about Family Album

Beasty

branie2 wrote: »

There is a website dedicated about old Kays catalogue, yet none about Family Album

The Kays heritage site is here

It was set up in 2000 by some ex-employees, focussed more on the fact it had been a business established in Worcester in the late 19th century and it, along with associated companies under the GUS umbrella had been a major employer in the area for a long time

The Family Album catalogue was essentially borne out of the GUS UK mail order business (which itself was based in Manchester) with relatively little substance in Ireland (although the Irish company did have some nice offices on O'Connell Street!)

branie2

Ghost Buster wrote: »

And the underwear section got me through my teenage years in 80s Ireland

How about the swimwear section?

fleet_admiral

Anyone remember the trips to the laundrette in Phibsboro with your nana to pay the oxendales bill just after they set up here and the real old building on O Connell street to pay the family album?

branie2

Family Album's spring/summer catalogue for 1993 really sticks my memory

branie2

Sticks in my memory, I mean

branie2

But then, I was 13 going on 14 of course.

branie2

Anyone here own old editions of catalogues?

looking_around

branie2 wrote: »

Anyone here own old editions of catalogues?

umm, why?

and why not start a new thread?

branie2

looking_around wrote: »

umm, why?

and why not start a new thread?

Just wondering