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Sarah Ransome, Scars, Sequins

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The Sequen - A New Year's Eve Glitter

Dress historian, author and broadcaster amber butchart joins Fona chesterton to discuss all things sparkle related. sequins are small disks of metal, be precious metal, or could be something like copper, that would then be sewn on to clothing. The earliest historical evidences of what we now call sequins is actually from the tomb of teuton. A sketch by leonardo de vinci for a sequin machine, which is just atal bit like a helicopter.

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