Montague Burton, The Tailor of Taste

Back in the 1930's almost every decent high street in the UK had a branch of Burton selling menswear. So popular were they that it's said that pre-1950 25% of British men were wearing their clothes.
The company's large statement stores featured lots of lovely Art Deco motifs as well as the company's distinctive logo. A few buildings are still occupied by Burton, as at Tottenham Court Road Station, but most have long gone. Some details still remain on the old stores – iron grilles at foot level, doorway mosaics, faux temple columns and, as in Streatham (and Belfast), elephants' heads, a popular motif in that era.
Date stamps can be found on some of the buildings in the granite footings; it was only a few months ago that I noticed that McDonald's near the Nag's Head junction of Holloway was originally a Burton branch, s opened in 1929 by members of Montague's family. Odd that I hadn't spotted the marks when I was writing about the shop next door. More date stamps here.

Back in the late1980s I bought a Burton's three-piece wool de-mob suit (often called a Full Monty) in dark brown with a light grey chalk stripe from Black Out II in Endell Street, WC2, an excellent vintage shop that I am glad to report is still trading today.
I made a few alterations to the jacket and trousers because the original owner must've been short and, er, squat. I took down and steamed out the turn-ups, added pleats to the trousers' waist, and moved the buttons on the jacket. I wore the it 'Kim Wilde style' with white shirt and sparkly jewellery. Though I did hear that it caused some blokes to assume I was a lesbian (idiots, but in most cases – phew!).
The suit had Burton's labels inside the pockets of the jacket and waistcoat (both lined in lovely thick cotton twill) plus the original owner's name written in ink, a name I cannot now recall and it never occurred to me to take photographs of the labels despite the fact that I liked to show this detail to friends or anyone who was interested.  

I don't recall when I got rid of it – I expect I gave it to a charity shop in the '90s. Back then I assumed suits like this must have been fairly commonplace, so I didn't consider it to be anything special. The most sensible thing would have been to have at least sold it back to the shop where I'd bought it – duh!
Obviously, I am now I am a little annoyed with myself because, having searched the web for reference of the same to include here, I can't find a similar suit, or a pic of the label. 
You'll just have to make do with this snap of me wearing the suit at a wedding – it's the only photo I can find of it.
Ah well.