The Sanderson’s Amanpuri design has inspired these whimsically patterned and luxurious ladies Sanderson Amanpuri Socks by Pantherella.
The range of socks presented here are made by Pantherella and we think they are the UK’s best socks. Available in a range of colours, designs and weights, Panterella socks come all the way from Leicester. Here is a video about Pantherella that you can see by clicking on the link here.
There’s not much I can really say about Leicester. As well as its fame as a centre for colourful socks, there’s not much else that Abrahams shares with it. So let me see… football, chrisps, hot air derivatives, yep, that’s about it…. except….
Leicester’s own Daniel Lambert
Back in the late 60’s or early 70’s I remember a feature on “Blue Peter” about a former Leicester resident. Daniel Lambert and his socks have stuck in my memory ever since. Living between 1770 and 1809, Lambert is renowned as having been the world’s fattest man. When he died his weigh was nearly 53 stone. His profession was keeper of Leicester Gaol and at the time was famous throughout the country.
Here is a photo by Jeffrey Chan of Keith Baverstock (organiser of ”Frock up Canberra”) with Daniel Lambert’s socks, featured in the Canberra Times.
To the right is a photo of Daniel Lambert’s clothes in the Leicester Museum.
If you look in detail you can see a page in a “Blue Peter” book which shows John Noakes and Peter Purves inside Daniel’s waistcoat ! To be exact, it is the seventh Blue Peter Annual and features the three presenters in Girocopters on the cover.
You can find out more about Daniel Lambert here.
You can see the range of other socks available at Abrahams Store, as well as these Amanpuri socks, here.
