Knitting with Dame Joanna
Part of the reason I do this blog is to encourage me to study and learn more about the history of fashion - I'm sometimes learning this stuff at roughly the same time as some of you reading these posts. Occasionally, though, it's fun just to post something because it features a future star. Here we have a set of images of a happy family, with the yummy mummy being played by none other than Joanna Lumley. Despite the 10p price tag, which would in theory date this as being from 1971 or later, I know this is earlier as after finding this one I came across one priced in pre-decimal coinage - I didn't buy it as the condition was considerably worse. So this is the future Dame Joanna Lumley not only before she played Purdy in The New Avengers, but also at some point before her screen acting career began with the 1969 films Some Girls Do and the James bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service . Joanna first came to fame as a model in London's swinging 1960s, where she wa...