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Clothes
The mini skirt, the blackshirt, the headscarf, Gambian dressmaking and a bride-to-be
Five accounts of what clothes have meant to people in the 20th Century.
Renzo Lodoli recalls wearing the black shirt of the Italian Army during World War II; Afsana Safa in the UK talks about wearing a headscarf; Reiko Nebashi in Japan discusses what the kimono means to her; British fashion designer reflects on creating the mini skirt in the 1960s and dressmaker Margery Liwali on how she was grateful to be able to make a living when she moved from Sierra Leone to Gambia.
