B Authentic

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/1940s-dress-firm-b-authentic-5008664

1940's dress firm B Authentic the way for NYE parties

A FIRM that almost went out of business two years ago is enjoying a nostalgia boom.

And staff at B Authentic, hidden away in an anonymous warehouse on a Milnsbridge industrial estate, are now gearing up for a busy New Year.

The company is expecting a boom in fancy dress hire, despite the recession.

But it is the company’s huge hoard of genuine 1940s uniforms that is the big attraction in this Aladdin’s cave.

B Authentic, which has a huge range of genuine vintage uniforms, was founded 40 years ago in Cleckheaton by Nora Snowden.

Mrs Snowden was able to amass a collection of British, Soviet, American and German military uniforms from World War II, when such kit was flooding the market and was available for a pittance.

When Mrs Snowden sold the business two years ago to former model and TV extra John Whitworth, such gear had become considerably more desirable.