stories of their makers and wearers. In a new, occasional series for Times Past, we will be sharing some of those Tales From the Wardrobe. Rebecca Quinton David Kemp began by manufacturing shawls in 1832. He went on to employ 250 staff at his premises at 37 Buchanan Street, now part of the Fraser’s department store building. The premises were huge – five levels of showrooms, fitting rooms, and a factory making “mantles, costumes, millinery, lingerie, silks, dress goods, shawls, and furs” according to the 1888 publication Glasgow To-day: Metropolis of the North. This directory describes the building as a “trade palace of which there are not a few in Glasgow, though certainly none to surpass this.”