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Red Dress Sense

2014/9/19
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This season's fashion for red prompts Lisa Jardine to reflect on the past power of the colour.

"In Tudor England successive monarchs tried to define social status by dress. A strict code governed the wearing of 'costly apparel', and red was one of the colours most rigidly controlled."

Producer: Sheila Cook.