What We Wore | A history of fashion from 1720 to 1982
Knitting Fashion | Design for Yourself
In fashion 'all designers should be obsolete'.
CHANNEL | BBC 2
FIRST BROADCAST | 22 November 1976
DURATION | 24 minutes 37 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
1976
Synopsis
In this episode of the 'how to' series, Jan Leeming and Pam Dawson, both wearing vivid examples of knitwear fashion, discuss adapting basic patterns to one's own designs. James Walters, wearing a crochet suit, encourages free thinking for knitters with his call for designer obsolescence, Pam gets upset by bad combinations of stitches and wool, and there is a nice demonstration of a dolly bobbin for French knitting.
Did you know?
Jan Leeming went on to become a BBC newsreader until 1987 and in 2006 took part in Channel 4's 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here'. James Walters is an exponent of scrumbling, which is a kind of 'freeform crochet'.
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