Clodagh Finn: Tailor clothes to fit the body, not the other way around

Here we are again with a return to the catwalk waif and the fallout in terms of body image that is certain to follow

Flat stomachs were the name of the game at Paris Fashion Show. Picture: AP Photo/Francois Mori

Wed, 30 Nov, 2022 - 02:00

Clodagh Finn is a journalist, writer and collector of stories. Her recent book, The Irish in the Resistance, co-authored with John Morgan, shines a light on the forgotten contributions of the Irish who resisted Hitler during WW2.

It feels like it’s time to revive the Short Skirt League. Bear with me now, this is not an argument for the micro-mini, more a plea to remember the ideals of an organisation, aka the rational dress movement, which argued clothes should serve the wearer, rather than the other way around.

Women might have cast off the whalebone corsets and Victorian underwear which, in some cases, weighed up to 14lbs, but sometimes you have to wonder if we are making any progress.