How to date fashions with Doris

[old rowley]

For those that are interested in dating photographs by fashion trends have a look at the BBC Archive section on the BBC site. They are currently running a program that was first shown in  1957 with regards to fashion through the ages which was presented by Doris Langley Moore. Well worth a visit just to hear Doris speak of "Hats on Heds".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/whatwewore/5607.shtml?all=1&id=5607

if the link does not work ( as is the norm with the links that I try to post) go to the BBC site and put in BBC Archives in the search box which should bring the page up that you are looking for.

old rowley

[PrueM]

Oh, that looks so fabulous OR!   

Thank you for posting the link...unfortunately (like most of the content on BBC iplayer etc.) it seems not to be available to anyone not in the UK 

I'm sure plenty of the others on here will be able to watch it and I bet it's great!

Prue 

[old rowley]

Its a shame that you can not view it Prue as it is the sort of thing that I think you would be interested in. Doris, it turns out, was the costume designer for Hepburn in the Africa Queen (1951) and also costume designer on the film Freud (1962). She also produced some books, two of which are at the National Library of Australia, these being The Woman in Fashion  (1949) and The Child in Fashion (1953).

old rowley

[IgorStrav]

Thank you so much for this link!

I have watched it with huge interest and my daughter (aged 14, and doing Textiles at GCSE) was also fascinated.

We all said how nice it was to have information simply provided, with lovely shots of actual people in real clothing in appropriate settings.................rather than a lot of computer generated guff complicating matters.

Doris is wonderful!

Are they repeating all of the programmes?  I must go and have another look

[IgorStrav]

Ooh, I see they have a whole series.  How fantastic. 

[silvery]

How very interesting.     I think only HM etc speak like that now.   

[old rowley]

Silvery- wotmakesya fink that I don't speak like that then?  We speak like that all the time dahn ere in the sarf 

Igor-Glad that you and your daughter liked it and more importantly that it was helpful to your daughter and her studies.

OR