Yellow towelling beach trousers and jacket
Designed by Foale and Tuffin, London, 1968
T.197:1&2-1991

This bright yellow beach outfit has primary coloured details. Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin were amongst the first to design trouser suits.
Royal College of Art graduates, they formed a partnership making and selling clothes from their boutique off Carnaby Street. In 1960 these clothes were spotted by the fashionable 21 Shop and featured in Vogue. Foale and Tuffin outfits became widely available in department stores and from the trendy 'Paraphernalia' boutique in New York.
Their most famous customers were the singers Cilla Black and Françoise Hardy, the TV presenter Cathy McGowan and the actress Susannah York.