1940s Fashions

As Tickhill prepared to have a 1940s day, this page focuses on the types of fashions which could have been or were seen around Tickhill at that time. Useful sources of information for prevailing fashions are knitting and sewing patterns from the period (such as the examples in the PDF below).

A time when many people made their own clothes, sometimes using new wool (available from Miss Percy's wool shop on Market Place) or fabric (available from the Co-op Drapers on Castlegate, Jenkinsons Drapers on Market Place or Jarvis Drapers on Sunderland Street), sometimes unpicking old garments and reworking the unravelled wool or pieces of material.