Father's Menswear Woes

Father was once a huge fan of the high street behemoth, Fosters Menswear.  He absolutely worshipped the place, but as we all know, it's now long gone and according to my internet-based research, disappeared in 1999 when it was subsumed into the Sears group:



It seems as though all of Father's favourite places to shop have fallen by the wayside, for example Wikipedia has this to say about the former men's fashion chain, Dunn and Co:

In its final year of trading as an independent company, 1996, Dunn & Co. had 130 shops and 429 staff, with a head office in Swansea employing a further 75 workers. It was losing £1m a year on sales of £25m a year, and when its debts reached £6.4m (with £4m owed to unsecured creditors), CinVen, who by then owned 86% of the company, called in the receivers KPMG, on 19 December 1996^[1]The brand name was purchased by Ciro Citterio. However, they also went into administration in 2003. 

Ciro Citterio was far too flash for Father.  He didn't and still doesn't approve of people wearing denim jeans.  With this in mind, we decided to visit the Marks and Spencer website to 'click and collect' some new threads, such as these rather lovely beige trousers: