her studies seriously; she
confesses, “aside from
the usual drunken student
shenanigans I’m afraid I
was a pretty good girl!”
Moving on to bigger
things, Judy made the bold
decision to leave the north
and set up home in London. She recalls, “it was
all very last minute, and I
ended up sleeping on my
brother’s floor until I found
a flat.” Judy then got her
first break with a job as a
Personal Shopper for Selfridges, enabling her to
network with other stylists
and industry insiders. After
two years at the iconic department store, Judy left to
pursue a career as a stylist.
Judy’s favourite of
these styling roles, she
says, was working on TV
drama Cold Feet; “I loved
getting hold of the character descriptions, looking at
their scenes and dressing
them accordingly. You can
really have fun with a character and it’s great to see
the actors becoming that
person as soon as a certain
outfit comes on”, she says.
She also muses
upon her stylist role in theatre production Madame
Butterfly on the West End,
in which she was responsible for changing the danc-