It’s the fashion trend you hoped they’d never revisit: suddenly, the likes of Chloé, House of Holland, Jeremy Scott and D&G have rediscovered double denim. Yup teaming blue on blue and worn, as at Mulberry, with trailer trashy big backcombed hair a border collie might fancy, is the thing. Whatever arcane references the designers may cite as inspiration, I reckon a new DVD, Prisoner Cell Block H: The Edna Pearson Story holds the key. Could they be pining for ‘top dog’, (Queen) Bea Smith and the louche lags of Wentworth Detention Centre, setting for ‘Prisoner’, the so-bad-it's-addictive serial from Down Under? The Sheilas in the slammer drama was a TV guilty pleasure in the early 1990s and it seems their dodgy denim dungarees, slaggy slacks and criminal pinafores have inspired the revival. Wallow in nostalgia as fashion muse/ poisoner Edna’s story - hitherto shelved for legal reasons -unfolds over eight never before released episodes. Altogether now! ‘You used to give me roses. I wish you could again……’
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