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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jess Molyneux

Liverpool's 'old-style' tailor shop at the heart of the city for decades

An "old-style" tailor shop that has welcomed generations through its doors has been at the heart of the city-centre for decades.

In between Boodles and Yanni's on Lord Street, a corridor leads you up a flight of stairs to Made to Measure, a well-established business that has been in Liverpool 40 years. Owned by tailor Ian Hamilton-Doyle, from Anfield, the shop is "hard to find," but has built up a huge and loyal customer base across the generations that continues today.

Ian, 68, first worked at Timpson's on Williamson Street after leaving school, before he mastered his craft as a tailor. As part of the Liverpool ECHO's How It Used To Be series, we spoke to Ian about how he has seen fashion trends and the city change over the decades and what it's like running a business in the heart of Liverpool.

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