Beadle's miscellany A fashionable quiz by Jeremy Beadle

1 Name the very tall, very successful British fashion designer who popularised floral-patterned boxer shorts, the Filofax, and brought out a limited edition of HP Sauce bottles.

2 What does the "cod" in "codpiece" mean?

3 What was first produced for the rich in Paris around 1730' popularised for the poor in the 19th century by the English engineer Matthew Boulton of Birmingham' and finally accepted as a fashion accessory for both rich and poor by Chanel in the 1920s?

4 What was the name of the way-out boutique that opened in Harrods in 1967 and was the first major store in the UK to offer unisex clothes?

5 In 1826 Beau Brummel first wore something described by The London Spy thus: "Its sensation was prodigious' dandies were struck dumb with envy, and washerwomen miscarried." What was it?

6 Which Roman-born designer, during the 1931-1932 Paris season, was the first to create female clothing with padded shoulders, and in 1939 introduced her trademark colour, shocking pink?

7 What is the family name of Giuliana and her brothers, Luciano, Gilberto and Carlo, who in 1965 founded in Treviso, near Venice, the world's largest knitwear company, which became the greatest consumer of virgin wool?

8. On 18 July 1857 The Times reported 40,000 tons of Swedish iron had been imported for the manufacture of which female clothing item that had been made fashionable by Empress Eugnie and was later made unfashionable by Princess Alexandra, wife of the future Edward VII?

9. What links: a dry white wine' a place for

sex' to plunder and destroy' the fashion item Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga introduced in 1957?

10. What name is shared by an Indian fig tree, and the loose flannel jacket, shirt or gown worn on informal occasions by gentlemen in the 18th and early 19th centuries, originating from outfits native traders wore while operating in the shade of such trees?

answers

1. Sir Paul Smith, who is 6'4", produced 1,899 customised HP Sauce bottles to commemorate the launch of the famous sauce in 1899.

2. "Bag" or "pod" from the old English "codd" (later used to mean scrotum).

3. Imitation jewellery. Matthew Boulton popularised "costume" jewellery with his cutsteel and marcasite designs and women wore brightly coloured glass stones in pinchbeck mounts. Chanel gave universal credibility to crystal or coloured glass jewellery in the 1920s.

4. Way In.

5. A stiffened cravat known by New England dandies as a "dicky".

6. Elsa Schiaparelli.

7. Benetton.

8. Crinolines, usually made of metal (sometimes whalebone) hoops held together by tapes so the dress could hang freely over it in a bell shape.

9. Sack. Balenciaga, the "Prophet of the silhouette", introduced the "sack" dress.

10. Banyans.

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