Mates by Irvine Sellars was a British fashion retail chain founded by Irvine Sellar.
Mates started with one shop is Soho's Carnaby Street and grew to become "Britain’s second-biggest fashion chain" with 90 shops in 1981, when it was sold to a South African investor.[1]
Sellar claimed that Mates was the first retail chain to sell men's and women's clothing under the same roof, and that they had 3,000 employees.[2]
References
- Rhiannon Bury. Shard developer Irvine Sellar dies aged 82 The Daily Telegraph, 27 February 2017, retrieved 28 February 2017