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Fashion from the 1990s to the 1790s and back again: Jade Halbert traces the history of Droopy & Browns, a fashion business renowned for the flamboyant and elegant work of its designer, Angela Holmes. While many British designers of the late twentieth century looked to replicate a lean, monochromatic, almost corporate New York sensibility, Angela Holmes gloried in drama and historicism. A favourite of actresses, artists, writers, and stylish women everywhere, the closure of the business soon after Angela鈥檚 death, aged 50, in 2000 marked the end of an era in British fashion.

Producer: Jessica Treen

Jade Halbert lectures at the University of Huddersfield and is a 大象传媒/AHRC New Generation Thinker on the scheme which turns academic research into radio. You can find another Essay called Not Quite Jean Muir about learning to make a dress on 大象传媒 Sounds /programmes/m000kgwq
and a short Radio 3 Sunday feature on the state of high street fashion shopping /programmes/m000gvpn

Image: Jade Halbert