1 Apr 2025

High-end menswear brand still strutting stuff 40 years later

From Nights, 9:25 pm on 1 April 2025

Fashion retail can be a brutal business especially for small independent operations.

Pandemics, economic woes, working from home or just changing styles all have an impact on the bottom line.

But some find a way to succeed.

Working Style, a high-end men's fashion retailer, has been selling premium menswear for nearly four decades.

Chris Dobbs started the business in the mid-1980s, and today, it's still going strong with six stores across the country.

He joins Emile Donovan.

A composite image showing three models styling Working Style clothes. On the left, a man in a green linen suit. In the middle a man in a grey tweed blazer over the top of a quarter-zip jumper. On the right, a man in a grey polo and cream pants.

While Working Style is selling fewer business suits these days, special occasion suits for weddings and smart tidy work clothes are still in high demand. Photo: Working Style