Bonjour Tristesse
In Iris Murdoch's novel "The Bell" (1958), an art student named Dora Greenfield bought "big multi-coloured skirts and jazz records and sandals". However, as Britain emerged from post-war austerity, some Bohemian women found influences from continental Europe, adopting, for example, the "gamine look", with its black jerseys and short, almost boyish hairstyles associated with film actresses Audrey Hepburn ("Sabrina", 1954, and as a "Gréco beatnik" in "Funny Face", 1957) and Jean Seberg ("Bonjour Tristesse", 1957 and "A bout de souffle", 1960), as well as the French novelist Françoise Sagan, who, as one critic put it, "was celebrated for the variety of her partners and for driving fast sports cars in bare feet as an example of the free life". In 1961 Fenella Fielding played "a mascara-clad Gréco-alike" in "The Rebel" with comedian Tony Hancock, while, more recently, Talulah Riley replicated the look for scenes in ITV's 2006 adaptation of Agatha Christie's "The Moving Finger", set in 1951.