"Since when did you wear a uniform and a pudding-basin haircut?"

"We all had pudding-basin haircuts, wore little red shirts and played Beatles songs in talent contests!"

Sporting a pudding-basin haircut, Noiret played a lovelorn youth in the southern fishing port of Sète.

We were all set to be impressed, but when we entered the room, it turned out that she was a tiny-little lady with grinning peasant features and the usual pudding-basin haircut.

She stood out in the university for her shaggy pudding-basin haircut, shapeless clothes and beat-up canvas shoes (she was still wearing black plimsolls a quarter of a century later when she went to Buckingham Palace to be made a dame by the queen).