Laurie Hopkins Menswear Blog

Following the famous victory by Huddersfield Giants against St Helens in the Semi Final of the Rugby League Challenge Cup, the actual Carnegie Challenge Cup will be on proud display here at Laurie Hopkins Menswear on Friday 15th August around 12:30pm for 2 hours.

We are inviting people to ‘come on down’ and have their photograph’s taken with this famous trophy here is our shop. Anyone who comes into the shop whilst the trophy is here will be able to enter into a prize draw to win a pair of tickets to the final.

Good luck Giants on Saturday 29th August.

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After watching one particular episode of the TV programme ‘Mary - Queen of Shops’ and seeing her ask the question ‘What is your Target age group?’, I have always wondered just what I would say if asked that question.

Jayne has always claimed that it would be impossible for us to give an answer to this because as she says, ‘we have to be all things to all people!’

This was highlighted today when I picked up the telephone to answer a call and I was asked if we did Prom Suit hire - now anyone who has read this blog will know we do - see the previous post!!

After explaining to the lady on the telephone that we had a great prom suit offer on at the moment, I was called into the shop to help an elderly couple with a Cardigan they had bought from us previously and which they wanted to change to a larger size.

The man explained that they were a rather remarkable pair, they were in fact twins (not Husband and Wife as I had thought) and that they were both (obviously!) 92 years old. His Sister went onto explain how she liked visiting our shop because ‘it is so easy to park the car outside’ (we have FREE FORECOURT PARKING) and so it was not far for her brother to walk to the shop. They went onto explain how they had left their elder Sister at home!

In the space of 10 mins, I had dealt with 2 seperate customer enquires with an age difference of 76 years! So now you see how difficult it would be for us to define our target age group!

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Yes, that’s right! You can get 4 100% Cotton Non-Iron Mens shirts for only £70 from our online shop buy clicking the following link:

100% Cotton Non-Iron Mens Shirts

And whats more, that includes FREE UK Mainland delivery.

So what are you waiting for? You know that these will make perfect Christmas presents for the men in your lives.

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A few years ago, we had what can only be described as a true Yorkshireman come into our shop here at Laurie Hopkins Menswear.

We offer an alteration service (if you buy the garment from us its FREE of charge - but that’s another story!) and an elderly man came in to see if Lauire could taper a pair of trousers he had that went with a Jacket to form a suit.

The Suit was over 30 years old, the jacket still fit him and despite the lapels being wide, the customer said he could live with that. It was the trousers that were the problem, they were flaired trousers and very obviously, they were not of the fashion of the day.

The customer asked Laurie if he could taper the trousers so that he could wear the suit again and not look out of place.

Laurie told him that he could and there would be no problem.

Our customer then asked ‘Only, can you leave the material on the inside when you taper them, just incase flared trousers make a come back!’

On an already 30 year old suit, a true Yorkshireman if ever I have met one.

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