Well, who'd have thought it?

I've had an allergy to clothing my whole life, (due to my dad being in menswear) and yet now, out of the blue, I'm in the rag trade! 

I'm buying womens gear here in Brasil and exporting it to my daughter Hannah to sell in the UK.

Here are some elements that will make up the upcoming website. Punters will be able to buy online or at markets around the south west, and Camden Lock too.

Buy our gear and look like you just stepped 

off the beach here...Ipanema!

Logo courtesy of Hannah's boyfriend Ben...well I nicked the bits and he reinvented them, with real paint and a paintbrush...remember them??

Meet Roberta, my mannequin...named 

after a lovely young lady at one of my suppliers.

Wearing a Macaquinho, in English, a culotte dress.

Tres chic!

Another dress for ladies.

Matching dress and blouse.

I found a town a hundred miles away where clothing is the main industry, where one street has around 1200, (that's twelve hundred) clothes shops in it, all of whom do wholesale as well as very cheap retail.

There's a complete dearth of other shops, bars, cafes and chemists (unknown in Brasil), and what few there are, are just doorways, with a corridor leading through to a hidden bar or cafe etc. tucked in behind clothes shops! 

The only hotel is behind a doorway with steps leading to a lift to the hotel located above clothes shops.

It's bizarre, but a great place to immerse yourself in the biz...I stayed in the hotel both visits and never left the street.

Another Macaquinho.

Fabric wot i bought for making a dress wiv.

Have done my own dress design and getting 

it made up here by local peeps.

I am still not gay.

Happy though...