1962 Ulster Linen Oxford Street Lights Tea Towel
Hollywood Glamour and Parisian Chic lights up Oxford Street as Leslie Caron switches on the 1962 Illuminations
Harold Macmillan’s view that the British as ‘a people’ had ‘never had it so good’ was probably true. The arrival of the British ‘New Wave’ Realism Cinema was born out of the emergence of newly, better educated, people, frustrated at the lack of progress and change in social structures in spite of Macmillans booming economy.
The L Shaped Room released in 1962, critically acclaimed, Leslie Caron won the British Academy Best Actress award, one of a series of British Realism films. ‘Look Back in Anger’ ‘A Taste of Honey’ were earlier releases.
However British working class audiences preferred the more meritocratic sentiments of Hollywood to the RADA driven realism of British post-war cinema. Preferring Ursula Andress climbing the beach in Dr No and Elvis’s roustabout reprising Blue Hawaii in ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ to an award winning actress catching bed bugs with a bar of soap. And certainly Christmas shopping on Oxford Street was far more enjoyable than joining the barricades.
Fabulous illustration with Grosvenor School influences exuding movement, vitality and the spirit of modern life
Produced by Ulster Linen as a Christmas shopping souvenir 75cm x 49cm
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