Penelope Chilvers

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500 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 2 Feb

Penelope Chilvers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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with a tiny collection.

I started enlarging the collection from the first style into different other styles that friends would ask me to make.

They'd say, I really like that boot, but I'd love it in navy suede.

Or could you do it in an ankle boot?

Or could you do something else?

And because I'm

so creative and I love making things, of course that got my juices, my creative juices going and I would dream up collections.

And I once went to Paris, sorry, the first time I went to Paris,

I went with a collection of six boots and I planted them on the table in front of me.

I didn't even have an order book.

I wasn't sure whether I would take any orders.

And I took orders for three days nonstop.

And when I got back on the Eurostar,

at the end of the trade fair, I totted up the orders and thought, my God, I think I've got a business going here.

But how the hell am I going to make them?

It was, well, for those days, it was big.

I think it was probably about £30,000 worth of

Of wholesale product.

And only one man making them.

Right.

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