Ron Moody Videos : Men Women and Clothes - Formal Clothes - Part Two

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Men Women and Clothes - Formal Clothes - Part Two

From christenings to funerals - how clothes signify important occasions. In the fourth programme of the 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. 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. Appearing in this series are: Romary Bain Sir Basil Bartlett Lady Rose Bligh Sally Charlton Elizabeth Cruft Miles Eason Judy Harris Camilla Hasse Lady Moore-Hastings Jeremy Hawk Jeanne Heal Christine Hopkins Robert Kennedy Jane Kentish Sara Kentish Moiya Kenward Marghanita Laski Mary Malcolm Ron Moody Vanessa Redgrave John Reed Irene Worth Doris Langley Moore FIRST BROADCAST: 12 May 1957 Part One: www.youtube.com This film footage is from the Archive Collection held by the Alexandra Palace Television Society. www.apts.org.uk ~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future

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