In the second programme of the series, Doris Langley Moore looks at
impracticality in fashionable clothing and how it has been popular
throughout history.
Impractical, ornate clothes signified a person of leisure who took
no part in manual labour. This particular fashion imperative was
turned on its head, of course, with the arrival of the Swinging 60s
and the democratisation of fashion brought about by people such as
Twiggy and Mary Quant.
