ABSTRACT
[In 1963] a new craze took over the nation’s Saturday nights, on the commercial channel – a black and violent thriller series, The Avengers, starring a bowler hatted Old Etonian actor Patrick MacNee [sic] and Miss Honor Blackman as a pair of mysterious secret agents. The show aroused particular excitement through Miss Blackman’s ‘kinky’ black leather costumes. And indeed the London-centred craze for ‘kinky’ black boots, ‘kinky’ black raincoats and ‘kinky’ black leather or plastic garments of all kinds raged throughout the autumn.
