'Radio Times' Special Supplement on Dressmaking - Part One.

Hints, tips and an outline of the delights to come in the forthcoming series, which will feature specially commissioned designs, 'how to' guides, on-screen advice and style gems from some of London's most prestigious couturiers.

Image and article courtesy of Victor Reinganum/'Radio Times' Magazine'

Read part two of the supplement.

The couturiers who featured throughout the series 'Clothes That Count' were all members of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers, a body set up in 1942 to promote British fashion abroad and to position London as a leading international centre of the industry. It was backed by the government, who were keen to increase exports in order to raise much-needed foreign revenue in the financially straitened times immediately after the Second World War.