Cultural views on the navel 1960s, community standards had changed. Marilyn Monroe was allowed to expose her navel in "Something's Got to Give" (1962) and later commented, "I guess the censors are willing to recognize that everybody has a navel." Ursula Andress, appearing as Honey Rider in the 1962 James Bond film, "Dr. No", wore her iconic white bikini, which exposed her midriff and navel. However, when Annette Funicello was cast in her first beach movie "Beach Party" (1963), Walt Disney, who held her contract, insisted that she only wear modest bathing suits and keep her navel covered, to preserve her wholesome persona, though she
Granny Was a Buffer Girl is only a small part of the book, but it sets the focus on family history. A "buffer girl" was a worker in the Sheffield cutlery industry who used the polishing machinery on steel tableware: a hot and dirty job that required protective clothing. Doherty was inspired by the William Rothenstein painting "Sheffield Buffer Girls", depicting two young women in their work clothes. In the first chapter the narrator is Jess, an 18-year-old girl who is about to leave home to study in France. Her extended family (her father Mike and mother Josie, her grandfathers Jack and Albert, her grandmother