The chain sells dresses, tops, knitwear, jackets, coats, pants, skirts, singlets, sleepwear and swimwear.

The store faced stiff competition from 36 other specialist menswear retailers in the central city, with some threatening to cancel orders with suppliers and wholesalers that did business with Barker.

The store was moved to a larger site at 200 Queen Street, fitted out to theme of 1974 film The Great Gatsby, and renamed Barkers.

[4] Despite campaigning by the Shop Employees Union to retain the ban, National Government legalised Saturday morning trading six months later.

[4] Store manager Lester Van Der Veer returned home in the early 1990s with the idea of a hooded sweatshirt and matching trackpants for both men and women.

[4] The arrival of Australian retailers in the 1990s, which sold cheaper Chinese-made clothing, forced Bakers to also move its manufacturing offshore.

[4] On its 40th anniversary in 2012, the company launched a Barkers branded magazine, beer, and a 7-inch single by Lawrence Arabia, and revived the 1990s trackpants.

Bakers also began collaborating with other brands like Swanndri, Flying Nun Records, McKinlay's and Surfline, and it became the formalwear supplier to the All Blacks.