Clothkits

In addition to this bricks and mortar retail outlet, the company have a large online business, and teach dressmaking classes from their contemporary sewing studio.

Clothkits specialize in selling colourful pre-printed kit clothing for children and adults, dolls and accessories.

Notable are the padded jacket kits for children with small stuffed animals to pop in pockets for toys on the go.

Founded as a mail order business by Anne Kennedy in 1969 and sold in 1988, Clothkits at one stage employed 400 workers and had 7 shops.

[citation needed] As well as the printed kits, at one time they sold ready-made clothing and coordinating knitted items such as jumpers and tights.