The 185-year-old company still clothing British film

by Joel Meadows |
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Joel Meadows finds out the story of legendary British costume suppliers Angels – and it goes back a very long way.

This article first appeared in Film Stories issue 26 in July 2021.

Very few companies span a whole century in film, and even fewer have a history that goes back to the Victorian era. Angels is one of those companies. Based in West Hendon in North London, the company’s head, Jeremy Angel, is a man very aware of its history.

“My great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather came over to England as a tailor in 1790,” he tells us. “However, he wasn’t earning enough to support his family so he had to take another job. Part of the contract for the other job was he was not allowed to work or own another business, so he gave his tailoring company to his son Morris, and Morris Angels began. We started as a tailor, but more and more people within the theatre industry started asking to borrow his costumes – the Angel family doesn’t understand the word ‘borrow’ but ‘hire’ we get! And that’s how we started hiring costumes,” he explained.

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<p><strong>Joel Meadows finds out the story of legendary British costume suppliers Angels – and it goes back a very long way.</strong></p>



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<p><em>This article first appeared in Film Stories issue 26 in July 2021</em>.</p>



<p>Very few companies span a whole century in film, and even fewer have a history that goes back to the Victorian era. <a href="https://www.angels.co.uk/">Angels</a> is one of those companies. Based in West Hendon in North London, the company’s head, Jeremy Angel, is a man very aware of its history.</p>



<p>“My great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather came over to England as a tailor in 1790,” he tells us. “However, he wasn’t earning enough to support his family so he had to take another job. Part of the contract for the other job was he was not allowed to work or own another business, so he gave his tailoring company to his son Morris, and Morris Angels began. We started as a tailor, but more and more people within the theatre industry started asking to borrow his costumes – the Angel family doesn’t understand the word ‘borrow’ but ‘hire’ we get! And that’s how we started hiring costumes,” he explained.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-endurance">Endurance</h2>



<p>The company’s longevity has been for a number of reasons, Angel believes.</p>



<p>“We have forged great relationships over the years with designers, supervisors, actors and producers. We pride ourselves on having a large stock, and staff&nbsp; who love costume and are absolutely passionate about what they do. We have also been very adaptable over the years when changes have come along, whether it was from theatre to cinema, cinema to TV, black and white to colour, TV to cinema, cinema to HD cinema.”</p>



<p>It’s also been the fact that it remains a family-owned business, he feels, that’s a contributing factor to why it is still around.</p>



<p>“My family have always cared greatly about costume, and each new generation brings a new impetus to the company and helps us evolve. We also offer a bespoke service where we can put together looks and help the designers that way, and over 12 and a half miles of stock gives us a great range of costumes throughout the eras to let our staff and customers choose from,” he adds.</p>



<p>Angels’ ability to move with the eras in terms of what it provides has been very much at its heart.</p>



<p>“While there’ve been huge changes for the industry, Angels has always been able to change with the times, and prided ourselves on providing a high-quality service and good-quality costumes.</p>



<p>“Technology may change from film to HD in cinema and TV, but the costumes always have to look real and also be accurate,” he explains.</p>



<p>Then there are the people Angels has employed. “Due to the talented staff we have, and the stock that’s been built up over the last 180 years, we’ve been able to adapt to changes. Shooting in HD… that could have been seen as a challenge, but our aim has always been to send out screen-ready, accurate period or contemporary costumes. Due to that, what should have been seen as a huge change was just more reason why we trust our staff and our stock. We had faith in what they were putting together and the stock.”</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-stocking-up">Stocking up</h2>



<p>Further ingredients to Angels’ endurance? “It’s also about improving the stock and adding to it, whether that’s by making new stock or purchasing stock. This isn’t just purchasing for the sake of it, it’s identifying gaps in our collection or areas that we need to improve. This is something my father has always been fantastic at, and with the work my brother does within the stock, we are far better organised than we have ever been and also are able to notice the possible gaps ourselves rather than waiting on customers to find it,” he told us.</p>



<p>Angels also closed its shop on Shaftesbury Avenue in London’s West End after 170 years, but even thought this was a difficult decision. Mind you, with what’s occurred since February 2020, it’s been vindicated. “This was not an easy decision for us to make, especially since this had been our home since we started in 1840. The film and theatre business had moved out of Shaftesbury Avenue by 1995 and it was solely a fancy dress shop from then on. Ultimately it came down to money: the building is located in the heart of Soho and at the time the landlord was asking for an astronomical amount to remain there. It was with a heavy heart we had to say we would move. However, with everything that has transpired in the last 14 months we were very lucky to have moved out when we did.”</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-acquisition-and-location">Acquisition and location</h2>



<p>Angels took over fellow costume company Bermans back in 1992, which in turn brought about changes to how the main business was run.</p>



<p>“There were some big changes that happened. We had to decide where we should be located,” Angel told us. “We now had three different business and buildings [Angels, Bermans and a company in Paris], which meant we had to combine all the stocks, then reorganise every building based on the stock and where we felt it should be.</p>



<p>“We had to deal with a monopoly investigation at the time, which we won but put a lot of pressure on the company. It did mean though that our stock holding went from around two miles of hanging rail to five and a half miles of hanging rail, and we had to identify what was useful, what wasn’t. We also had to get ourselves trained as to what the new stock was and where it was and what we could use.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-auntie-s-bloomers">Auntie’s bloomers</h2>



<p>It wasn’t just Bermans that Angels acquired. Back in 2008, it then took over the BBC costume department.</p>



<p>“The BBC costume department had a fantastic 60s and 70s stock not to mention its large Light Entertainment department. Purchasing the BBC meant that we had a massive influx in these areas my father – and the management team – had identified. That those were the areas that they felt the industry would start moving into making more productions about. It was a good gamble to make as there was a sudden boom in 60s and 70s productions which, if you take programmes like Call The Midwife, have remained constant over the last eight years,” Angel argues.</p>



<p>The world of film has changed dramatically since the COVID pandemic hit, but Angels has been well placed to ride the challenge out.</p>



<p>“At the beginning of the Pandemic in March 2020 the work completely disappeared, but thanks to the work we put in with the unions and organisations within the industry and the Government, the industry was able to start again slowly working within guidelines that we helped to draft.</p>



<p>“With the start-up of work again came new challenges of having to work within the new COVID world, but we have been very open with our customers about what we’re doing, and our policies meant that when work started in earnest our customers knew how we were operating, knew we had tight protocols in place and were able to come in and work in a safe environment.”</p>



<p>The changes wrought by Covid-19 have forced film and TV to have a serious rethink about how things are made, and it’s emphasised the need to create quality projects and shows in a safe environment. As we wrap up our chat, Jeremy Angel seems hopeful about the future.</p>



<p>“I would hope that the last year has given productions a chance to realise how important planning every detail is, and that it will lead to more awareness given to costume and their time requirements. We have all watched Prime, Netflix and other channels so much to get through this, we need new great shows and films to watch and there’s a huge rush now to meet this demand. But I hope productions give us and the costume teams a little more time to make the new shows and films.”</p>



<p>Angels is now undeniably a British and film institution, and it is testament to the passion and commitment of the Angel family that 180 years later it’s still out there offering its expertise and knowledge to the biggest films and TV shows being shot in the UK. That’s not bad for a company started by a tailor.</p>



<p><em>Photos courtesy of Angels</em>. </p>
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