Designer A, “What’s a Pearly King?” Designer B? “A what? “
Designer A, “Desperate Yarn company wants us to design a ‘Pearly King Costume’ for a doll.” Designer B, “Oh.”
Designer A pulls “Costumes of the World” off the shelf. ” A Pearly King is a ‘costermonger’. . . [blah, blah, blah ] . . . , a street vendor who sells fruits and vegetables from a barrow.” Designer B raises eyebrow.
Designer A, “. . . Their ornate costumes of black velvet are entirely covered with pearl buttons.”
Designer B, “Well, there you go!”
From Knitting World, Sept. 1992.
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Pearly Kings and Queens is a London, cockney thing – I’m not quite sure of the tradition behind it. The song that comes to mind is “Doing the Lambeth Walk” – see http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/PearlyKingsQueens.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearly_Queen
Comment by steelbreeze — 12/3/2006 @ 2:34 pm
Oh….no dolls….no dolls….ever!
Comment by Dee — 12/6/2006 @ 3:03 pm
pearly Kings and Queens of Cockney London are still about to this Day have a Ganderat my website
All the best of Cockney luck
from Pearlykingjim
Comment by pearlykingjim — 3/12/2008 @ 7:41 am
http://www.pearlykingjim.co.uk
Comment by pearlykingjim — 3/12/2008 @ 7:42 am