Douglas Millings

Arnold "Dougie" Millings (30 July 1913, in Manchester – 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 at the height of Beatlemania in 1963 (inspired by Pierre Cardin)^[2] as well as their stage suits for the movie Help!. Millings made more than 500 outfits for the band.^[3]

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

Notes

1. "200 Things You Didn't Know About The Beatles". Q. Vol. 1, no. 279. 2009. pp. 58–63.
2. "Collarless Suit by Beatlesuits".
3. See New York Times Obituary Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

References

• New York Times Obituary

External links

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