I have been meaning to post this for a while

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Style on Trial: 1940s

I am currently watching this on the iPlayer. Interesting concept, putting the fashion of a decade on trial - and I am really enjoying the clips of 40s style - there were some wonderful designs - and of course 40s government informations films are a scream. "The board of trade and Harrods have put on an exhibition to show the housewife how to make do and mend"

But it is let down by the bits in between. Stuart Maconie is ok (shoot that shirt please), but Lauren Laverne is getting on my nerves a bit. Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen is about the best of the panel - he knows his stuff. Annalisa Barberi was ok until she mentioned that she had 'spoken to real people from the 1940s'! As for Immodesty Blaize, some of what she says is ok, but I am very distracted by her hair!! 

It feels really apt to be knitting socks while watching this.