featuring Ruby Miller, Bessie Love, Elsa Schiaparelli, Hardy Amies, Mary Quant, Twiggy
A good-humoured film about what women wear and why; tracking the development of fashion from 1900 to the present day... and beyond.

'I don't think you have to wear clothes at all,' says Mary Quant, begetter of a whole generation of boutiques. 'Girls have always suffered to be fashionable,' says mini - model Twiggy. Modern fashion is 'all knees and navels,' says Gaiety Girl Ruby Miller. Mme Elsa Schiaparelli, one of the most influential designers of the century, makes one of her rare television appearances, and Hardy Amies shows three dresses from his 'New Look' collection.
More than 50 dresses are shown, always in the right social setting -an Edwardian theatre, a Twenties dance hall, a Rockers' Youth Club.
Contemporary film shows how fashion has adapted itself to the changing needs of women over the century and how different generations of women emphasise different parts of their bodies (Laver's Theory on the Movement of Erogenous Zones).
Written and directed by Bruce Norman
(see pages 52-55)
(Colour)