Dinah Lee

aka Diane Jacobs


Queen of the mods

My book Sweet As: Journeys in a New Zealand Summer has had many positive responses, not least from a young woman who emailed me saying her aunt used to manage Dinah Lee – my search fo...

Dinah Lee, sixties fashionista

Self-decoration to stand out or to fit in has always been part of human nature. War-paint, beads, fabric, tattoo and mask have endured through the millennia as tribal markers or beaut...

Dinah Lee brings the bluebeat home

Picture this: June 1966, a military base deep in the Vietnamese jungle. Alongside the constant throb of shells being fired and helicopters landing and taking off, a rock band star...

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