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Radio 4. My castaway this week is Felicity Green, the first woman on the board of a

national newspaper, she has blazed a trail and cut a dash for over 50 years. Her early byline was Felicity Green on the

fashion scene and as Hemlines headed north in the early 60s she hit her stride on Fleet

Street making her reputation at the mirror with, among other things,

a reader's offer for a pink gingham mini dress and matching headscarf. They shifted more than

17,000. Proving to her sceptical bosses that she at once had her finger on the pulse

and her other hand on the purse strings.

She says, until the 1960s, young women copied their mothers.

There was nothing else available.

Now, nobody wants to look like an old lady, including old ladies.

Do you aim, I wonder Felicity Green, to be fashionable or to be stylish?

I've never been fashionable. I think fashion needs to be followed at a very, very respectful distance.

But one of my heroin, fashion heroines, was Gene Muir.

And Gene Muir dresses were practically invisible.

They were expert dress making designing. No one ever said what a

wonderful dress. They always said goodness you look lovely. My blueprint for fashion

was to be simple and stylish.

Don't follow the latest fashion.

You'll look suppy in a puffball skirt next year.

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