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30 Episodes 1987 - 1988
Episode 1
Selina Scott, Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin show you how to get smart. In London Jeff and Caryn see what British designers are offering for spring/summer 88, and there's also the best of autumn looks if your wardrobe's incomplete. In Monaco, Selina goes shopping for second-hand clothes. She investigates the rising importance of investment clothing.
Episode 2
Selina Scott 's behind the wheel of the Clothesmobile to reveal the latest in men's knickers in Knutsford. Jeff Banks launches The Clothes Show Aero Knitting Competition and teacher Sue Williams is the guinea-pig under analysis - colour analysis. Caryn Franklin hums Viva I'Espana as she sets off to report on Europe's current fashion hotspot - Barcelona.
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Episode 10
Dallas :'Miss Sellie' and 'JB' set out to meet the real women of Dallas and visit the lady with the largest wardrobe (or closet) in the world. Selina Scott and Jeff Banks celebrate 80 years of the top oilmen's store Neiman Marcus and Christmas at the Historical Society's annual ball.
Episode 11
Selina Scott, Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin launch the Clothes Show Model 88 competition. There's a look at what's next in mail order and John Inman and Cheryl Baker show off their panto frocks. And on the bottom line - lean and leggy looks in lycra.
Episode 12
Selina Scott, Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin report on a major modelling assignment on the beach at Camber Sands. There's a look at the 50 designs selected as finalists in the Clothes Show. Aero Knitting Competition and the computers that can help you choose your wardrobe.
Episode 13
With the January sales nearly over, Selina Scott. Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin present a guide to the new looks coming in to our High Streets. And a report on a new fibre developed by ICI and its major use in ski wear.
Episode 14
Selina Scott and Jeff Banks report from Hong Kong. While the garment manufacturers are busy working for top international names, the local designers are showing their collections in Hong Kong Fashion Week. British Home Stores are opening their first shop in the colony, Gieves and Hawkes their second. How do the men from Savile Row measure up to Sam the Tailor?
Episode 15
Selina Scott and Caryn Franklin present the boys' own programme. There's a visit to the Designer Menswear show. Teresa Fairminer shows the chaps how to look after their skin, and big boys such as policemen and farmers have trouble with big feet, so it seems. Also, what can a trendy 14-year-old find to wear?
Episode 16
With Valentine's Day nearly here, Selina Scott, Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin get us in a glitzy mood with a look at party dress hire. A fashion stylist gives away some of the tricks of the trade, there's an opportunity to drool over the jewels you hope he'll be buying you and if you bite your nails, don't give up hope because two ladies think everyone should have impeccable talons.
Episode 17
Selina Scott looks ahead to hair colouring and new ways with tin hats. Jeff Banks talks to James Acheson, costume designer of Bertolucci's film The Last Emperor (1987). Caryn Franklin meets a number of like-minded dressers who enjoy the individual approach to fashion.
Episode 18
Is fashion Down Under all swinging corks and bikini bottoms? Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin celebrate the arrival of the first sheep in Australia 200 years ago, Bruce Oldfield and Jean Muir represent the UK in a major fashion show featuring wool collections by the world's leading designers. There's a visit to a sheep station, a Merino stud and yes there's swimwear too.
Episode 19
Keeping the elements at bay - today Selina Scott, Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin are outward bound with a report on how to look after yourself in the great outdoors. Patsy Kensit is dressed by Bruce Oldfield for the new Clothes Show Magazine out later this month. There's something for older ladies and a start at sifting through the thousands of photos sent in to the model competition.
Episode 20
Fifty finalists have knitted up their designs for new ideas on sports jumpers, and today Selina Scott, Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin present the final of The Clothes Show Aero Knitting Competition. Selina looks at how the Shetland islanders earn a living knitting at home, and Caryn reports on a Nottingham company whose knitwear designs have been chosen by the Design Council.
Episode 21
It's London Fashion Week and Selina Scott, Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin join the rest of the world's fashion journalists, photographers and buyers as the circus rolls into town. In contrast to the hype and hysteria at Olympia, there's a report from Harrogate Fashion Fair.
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Episode 30
Last programme in the series Selina Scott, Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin present the final of The Clothes Show Models 88 competition. Thirty two young people step out onto the catwalk for the first time in front of a capacity audience in the Assembly Rooms, Derby. The judges are Sarah Doukas of Storm Model Agency, photographer Tony McGee, Catherine Bailey, fashion editor of Marie-Claire, and hairdresser Trevor Sorbie. Ten year-old Dawn Hind becomes a cover girl and Jerry Hall is photographed for the new edition of The Clothes Show magazine.