A clip from the first ever Dempseys Den – bright jumper included
This video, from YouTube, is apparently the first ever episode of Dempseys Den. The jumper (I can’t call it a woolly jumper as it’s a linen/cotton mix) is another Heritage Knitwear design.
Every jumper made by the company had a 3-digit design number, and every colour had a different 3-digit code as well.
From this mornings post, I don’t remember either the style number (though it could be 721), or the colour number. In the video clip below, I think the style number would have been 664 – and the colour was 201 white.
Growing up, one of my main jobs was to pack the jumpers into plastic bags before they were packed in boxes and dispatched. Every swing ticket put on every jumper was hand written with the style number, the colour number and the size. You pack a few thousand jumpers into bags you get to remember these things – and become very adept at folding clothes.
The pattern on the jumper Ian Dempsey is wearing below is a nautical theme, with the blocks of colour intended to represent sailing ensign flags. I believe the ensigns used on this jumper actually represented the message “check me out and my lovely jumper”.
