Specialist supplies of trimmings and haberdashery can be difficult to track down (even with the great answer to everything that is google) so here are some specialist suppliers that I regularly use. Feel free to add any if you have some good ones or ask any other 'right siders' for help tracking stuff down.

For tailoring supplies its GOT to Jonathan Bernstein for anything thats not cloth.

http://www.qualitylinings.co.uk/linings.htm

Corsetry stuff from

Devine Supplies Ltd., 57a Brightwel Rd., Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, SSO 9EB, UK Tel: (01)702-352500 or (01702)-613101


Millinery (including feathers)

http://www.millinerwarehouse.co.uk/

http://www.baxterhart.co.uk/


There are no back handers here, just a satisfied customer.

I should really name all of the terrible ones too! I will never forget going inot a certain local hebdashery shop to find one of my students in tears because she had dared to bring her design work in to ask the shop dragons for some advice on what trim to buy. Needless to say we both left withour buying anything there that day, or any day since. I also told every one of my students from year 7-13 not to go there for anything even though it was pretty much next to the school.