The high street hangouts we loved – and lost
telegraph.co.ukNext on Market Street (the Next sale was such a moment, I once skipped a day of sixth form in search of a black roll neck that in my head would make me look like Yasmin Le Bon).
It was a time when high street shopping and popular culture were deliciously intertwined. I had a particular fondness for a Manchester boutique called The Last Picture Show in St Anne’s Court (now an anaemic-looking office space), where my sister and I both bought a pair of peak 1980s canvas shorts, which we liked to roll up at the hems à la Andrew Ridgeley.
And I can still vividly picture my mum’s tiered skirts and Victoriana blouses from Dorothy Perkins, which I commandeered when I was going through my Adam and the Ants phase. (All of Dotty P’s physical shops closed following the grim unravelling of the Arcadia Group, which went into administration in November 2020 in a messy web of pension deficits and thousands of jobs lost).
Ah yes, Philip Green’s once glittering Arcadia Group, whose erstwhile Topshop flagship store on Oxford Circus finally shut its doors in 2021.
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