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Formal Clothes

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1950s fashion history series. Doris Langley Moore explores how outfits for formal events are planned to call attention to our joy, grief or glory.

1950s fashion history series. Doris Langley Moore explores how outfits for formal events are planned to call attention to our joy, grief or glory. She also looks at how ceremonial robes are merely once-fashionable formal attire that has become 'petrified' and how this is particularly true in Britain, where we like to maintain the distinctions that reveal one's place in society.

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Thu 15 Jan 2009 23:00
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Doris Langley Moore designed Katharine Hepburn's dresses for her role in 1951 romantic adventure The African Queen. One of the models in this edition (Margaret Winifred Hastings) worked as a journalist before her marriage and once obtained an exclusive interview with gangster Al Capone.

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