Womens Barbour Jackets & Coats
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The Barbour story begins with John Barbour who was born in 1849 and raised on a farm in Galloway in West Scotland. At the age of 20 he left the farm to try his luck across the border in the north east of England where in 1870 he started a business as a traveling draper. He started J Barbour & Sons in 1884 in South Shields. The shop sold all manner of products loosely described as drapery including outerwear, boiler suits, painter's jackets through to underwear and in the flourishing town of South Shields the shop which became know as Barbour's thrived. Almost from the start Barbour derived an important part of its business from ship owners, seamen & ship builders supplying oilskin coats designed to protect the growing community from the worst of weather. Today Barbour's headquarters are still in South Shields. Although it sources products from around the globe. Their classic wax jacket are still produced by hand there with over 100000 jackets a year being processed.
