Full marks for trying an unlikely journey from the Raj to the rag trade
"From her early beginnings - a colourful childhood in India brought to an abrupt end by independence and partition, a return to dreary post-war England, and on to a finishing school in Paris - Brigid Keenan was never destined to lead a normal life. When, as a ten-year-old, she overheard herself described as 'desperately plain', she decided to rely on something different: glamour, eccentricity, character, a career - anything so as not to end up at...
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