“This is my Two-Tone jumper that my mother knitted for me in the late 1970s. My mother and both my grandmothers ran wool shops – there was always knitting and stitching going on in our house. 

As a young teenager I loved Two-Tone music. I remember wearing this jumper and dancing in my room to A Message to you Rudy by The Specials and On my Radio by The Selector. I loved, and still love, those two tracks.

Yesterday I listened to Weekend Woman’s Hour. Pauline Black (lead singer of the Selector and general style icon) was interviewed. She spoke about the Two-Tone movement; whose aim was to unite young people against racism and sexism at a time when Margaret Thatcher had just come into power. The multicultural aspects of the bands referenced a desire to transcend tensions in Britain at that time. 

Even more reason to spread the love today!”

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Judith Isaac-Lewis