Douglas Millings

Arnold "Dougie" Millings born 30 July 1913 in Manchester; died 20 September 2001 in London was a London-based tailor known as "the Beatles' tailor".

Millings' shop was located on 63 Old Compton Street ^[1] in Soho and began designing for British pop stars such as Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, and Adam Faith in the early 1960s and made the collarless suits the Beatles wore on their first American tour in 1964 as well as the stage suits for the movie Help!. Millings made more than 500 outfits for the band.^[2]

Millings had a small part as a frustrated tailor in the movie A Hard Day's Night.

Notes

^ "200 Things You Didn't Know About The Beatles", Q, 1 (279): 58–63, 2009 {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
^ See New York Times Obituary

References

New York Times Obituary

External links

The Times (London) Obituary.
John Lennon's suit by Millings at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

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[1] "200 Things You Didn't Know About The Beatles", Q, 1 (279): 58–63, 2009 {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

[2] See New York Times Obituary

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