Robin Stubbs, who has died aged 84 after suffering from dementia, was a costume designer who gave David Jason, as Del Boy, a new yuppy look in the TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses. In the era of Margaret Thatcher and get-rich-quick schemes, Stubbs moved Del’s look away from his market-trader gear of sheepskin coat and flat cap, and dressed him instead in upmarket suits bought for hundreds of pounds at Austin Reed in Regent Street, London.
“We always had to be discreet when we went for them because, if David is recognised, he gets mobbed,” Stubbs told Steve Clark, author of The Only Fools and Horses Story.
