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The Essay Fashion Stories Episodes

    Boy with a Pearl Earring

    5/5 Lauren Working explores the cavalier look from Charles I to Harry Styles.

    Uniforms - An Alternative History

    4/5 Tom Smith links school blazers and clothes worn by East German soldiers to clubbing.

    Drama, Dressing-up and Droopy & Browns

    3/5 Jade Halbert looks at the designs inspired by English history created by Angela Holmes.

    In a Handbag

    2/5 Shahidha Bari looks at what the contents of a handbag can tell us.

    Body Armour

    1/5 Sophie Oliver looks at a Mina Loy corselet and the history of reshaping bodies.