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Woman's Hour

Late Night Woman's Hour - Clothes

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

From the shock value of punk to Muslim modesty codes, via clothes as art and how police officers personalize their uniforms, Lauren Laverne and guests discuss what we wear and what it means.

With punk pioneer Jordan, fashion designer Barjis Chohan, philosopher Shahidha Bari, and former police officer and blogger Ellie Bloggs

Producer: Luke Mulhall.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour. I'm Lauren Levern and this month we're talking about women and clothes with an impeccably dressed and extremely well qualified panel.

0:08.8

Joining me tonight fashion designer Bargeschohan who cut her teeth at westward but has made a name for herself with her own line

0:16.5

always described as elegant and sometimes described as modest.

0:20.6

Welcome to you.

0:21.6

Thank you. Thank you for having me on board. Pleasure.

0:25.0

Style pioneer Jordan is here. She was dressing as a punk before it even existed as an aesthetic.

0:31.0

Good evening, Madam. Welcome. Good evening to you. Thanks for being here. We've

0:35.2

got a woman who's spent a lifetime in uniform, PC Ellie Blogs, ex-police officer, blogger, and

0:41.1

author of Diary of an On Call girl.

0:43.8

Hello, how you doing?

0:44.8

Hello hello hello.

0:45.8

Oh, she's good.

0:48.2

I like that.

0:49.2

And Shahid Abari, who is somewhat preoccupied with the subject of women and what they wear as she's

0:54.8

currently working on a book about the philosophy of clothes do you write that in your

0:58.3

pyjamas shahadha be honest oh my god I do I didn't expect that revelation to go so early on in the show, but yes.

1:05.4

Well, you know, I've written before. I know how it works.

1:08.9

Okay, well, we'll talk a little bit more about that and a bit. Welcome everybody. I might start with a bit of an easy round

1:13.7

table to start the ball rolling and what is your favorite item of clothing that you're

1:18.9

wearing tonight I can start if that's helpful to give you a few seconds thinking time.

1:23.6

I am wearing a blue leopard print dress because I enjoy the blue leopard very much

1:29.3

but underneath a thermal vest and I feel like the combination is very much a metaphor for where I'm at in life.

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