History of the England cricket team to 1939 3 on the first morning before losing a competitive match when they were bowled out for 187 chasing 346. Before the 1932-3 tour to Australia, England had become used to the prolific run-scoring of Don Bradman. The England captain, Surrey's Douglas Jardine chose to develop the already existing leg theory into fast leg theory, or bodyline, as a tactic to stop Bradman. Fast leg theory involved bowling fast balls directly at the batsman's body, and Jardine had two very fast accurate bowlers, Harold Larwood and Bill Voce to bowl them. The batsman would need to defend himself, and if he
Moya Bowler autumn 1968, Bowler was producing two-tone shoes, using material combinations such as snakeskin and suede, and had introduced what was described as a "medieval slipper" with ruching along the vamp. Her shoes were also being retailed in a new Sloane Street store called Sids – owned by an American called Lawrence Copley Thaw – alongside models by Ronald Paterson, Leslie Poole, Adele Davis and Simon Foster. All of them were RCA graduates and Bowler was responsible for creating 60 per cent of the shoes in the store. Sids' men's range was popular among visiting Americans – some bought six pairs