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  Petticoats Wednesday 26 March 2003  
Image: a modern petticoat
For the first time since 1956 the petticoat has now been removed from the retail price index. Women are no longer buying them and they are difficult to find in the shops these days.

Annie Moss, owner of Annies in Camden Passage, and Carolyn Richardson, Costume Historian and Designer at the London School of Fashion, join Jenni to talk petticoats.
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