Designer Hilary Dunphy on the attitude of Irish people to clothes and fashion.
Hilary Dunphy runs Adam and Eve's boutique on Mount Street with her husband. With a background in fashion and dress design, she has lived in the United States as well as well as in Lebanon where women have a completely different approach to fashion,
Everybody had a glorious suntan, and they didn’t mind showing skin.
She believes the Irish attitude to clothing seems to be dictated by surroundings, the weather and affordability,
We’re very drab as a people.
Hilary Dunphy would like to see Irish women take more chance with fashion and have more confidence in themselves,
If you’re prepared to be individualistic...the end results will be a lot better.
She designs and creates a range of clothing with her staff in the workshop on Mount Street. Many Irish women would benefit from a more coordinated look she believes,
They’d look smashing.
This episode of 'The Shape Of Our Lives’ was broadcast on 19 April 1973.
'The Shape of Our Lives' was a seven-part series on the theme of design. The first programme in the series was broadcast on 12 April 1973.
