Clothes shopping after lockdown: All your questions answered

The Government’s official 50-page guideline released this week for getting Britain back to work, says that “non-essential” stores, such as fashion retailers, may be able to reopen from June 1st, provided that social distancing measures and the correct level of sanitation have been put in place. Load Error The socially undistanced queues outside some French branches of Zara last week suggest that some shoppers strongly disagree with their government’s definition of non-essential. Sobering pictures and an excoriating backlash in the US, where the crush in some branches of TJ Maxx should be a warning to retailers here that they need to take serious measures to protect their customers.