Men Women and Clothes - How Fashions Come and Go - Part One

The BBC's first ever series in colour explores the history of fashion.

In the first programme of this fascinating series, the marvellous Doris Langley Moore looks at fashion evolution and sources of inspiration. Using authentic period costumes modelled by some familiar faces, she addresses issues such as why cloaks resembled lampshades in the 19th century and how bustles evolved from crinolines.

Although the series was filmed in colour, the ability to actually transmit programmes in colour was slower to develop and didn't start on the BBC until 1967. As the Queen Mother had opened the Museum of Costume at Eridge Castle in 1955, and to enable her to appreciate the full colour spectacle, she was invited to a private film viewing at the BBC a few days before the programme aired in 1957. The collection was eventually moved to Bath and Doris Langley Moore made sure that every 12 months a new addition was made to represent that year's fashion. Mary Quant designed the dress that was chosen for 1963.

Romary Bain
Sir Basil Bartlett
Lady Rose Bligh
Sally Charlton
Elizabeth Cruft
Miles Eason
Judy Harris
Camilla Hasse
Lady Moore-Hastings
Jeremy Hawk
Jeanne Heal
Christine Hopkins
Robert Kennedy
Jane Kentish
Sara Kentish
Moiya Kenward
Marghanita Laski
Mary Malcolm
Ron Moody
Vanessa Redgrave
John Reed
Irene Worth
Doris Langley Moore

FIRST BROADCAST: 21 April 1957

Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nU_5QeE-bM

This film footage is from the Archive Collection held by the Alexandra Palace Television Society.

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[thewildplaces]

Oh I loved this! It re-aired some years ago and I thought it was fantastic. Great quaint-value but really insightful too. Thank you for uploading it! :D

[aptsarchive]

@thewildplaces Glad you enjoyed the programme.

[pahoboye]

what year?

[aptsarchive]

The whole of this series was transmitted in 1957.

[suzannesadiiqa]

Lord but she is so hard to listen to, such a strained accent and stilted delivery!

[NanaNarcotic]

This is great.