Groovy grannies

Designer labels, including Jaeger, John Rocha, Weardowney and Lowie are employing women in their sixties, seventies and eighties to churn out traditional hand-knitted items of clothing and accessories.
As fashion takes a retro step, designers are snapping up women ’of a certain age’ who retain what is an increasingly rare skill to produce sought after fashion items. So sought-after are these fashion ladies that in some cases their identities are being kept secret to prevent them being poached by rival labels.