Jean Shrimpton

Young and beautiful and, for the times, barely dressed.

English model Jean Shrimpton, who'd been invited by the organisers to attend the races, wore a small shift dress.

And all of a sudden, literally everybody stopped talking.

And they all turned around and looked at Jean.

There were angry women looking at Jean Shrimpton.

all of these dressed-up matrons.

And there she is looking so young and fresh and beautiful.

She was in Dior for her to talk.

Really?

Jean Shrimpton.

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yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mike thought that she was Jean Shrimpton.

Oh, Mike had a little thing for her then, did he?

And her name was Chrissie Shrimpton.

And her sister was Jean Shrimpton, the number one model in the world at that time before Twiggy came on the scene.

David Bailey found her.

And Chrissie was Mick Jagger's girlfriend at the time.

And then London obviously became an absolute hotbed of fashion, excitement, music, the swinging '60s.

You had, like, Mary Quant, Twiggy, uh, Jean Shrimpton.

Um, so you had, like, designers and models who became massive coming out of London and really influencing fashion.

But also, um, like you were just saying about movies, I do think that because foreign, foreign language, um, movies became- Really fashionable in the '60s, so the French New Wave, Italian New Wave, Scandinavian cinema.

Yeah.

It's not long ago, is it? I mean, according to the dress historian Prudence Black, Jean Shrimpton made everyone else look old and dowdy, and the lord mayoress was reportedly fuming.

She said that what Jean had done was very bad manners.

Wow, that is Jean told.