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S16, Ep8 How To Fail: Joan Bakewell - the legendary broadcaster on life, love and everything in between
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
The Importance of Short Skirts on TV
Joan Rivers: It's quite brave to wear a miniskirt on TV. The miniskirt became possible once they'd invented tights, because we used to wear suspenders and stockings that showed. Once you got tights, you had long legs and people strode out with pretty colored shoes came in. People like Mary Quant started designing dresses with very short skirts. And then it became cheaper. I mean, I used to shop down in Camden Town where there was a shop I went to where you could buy a dress for three pounds,. Because they'd run it up that morning after two pieces of cloth. She says she has mixed feelings about being known as the thinking man
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