Trinny and Susannah Undress The Nation: Get Glamourous!
Tired of seeing ladies dressed in tracksuits, fleeces, trainers and parka jackets they want people to embrace a little bit of glamour in their wardrobes and their lives.
Recruiting five ladies who have lost their sparkle, Trinny and Susannah set about glamorising them for a night on the town and showing them how they can retain their new look everyday. Then it’s time for a bigger challenge as they revamp the wardrobes of an entire team of factory workers to prove to the nation that a little bit of glamour can go a long way.
The girls invite 100 women from across Britain, who feel that they have lost their sparkle, to a famous London night spot to find out why they no longer like to dress up.
Surprised by just how poorly dressed the ladies are, Susannah says: “Look at you all, you look like truck drivers. You didn’t even bother to make an effort to come and see us today. Shame on you all.”
Trinny and Susannah choose five ladies they feel are in desperate need of their help to take for a super glam makeover, including 33-year-old tomboy Diane – who really is a truck driver.
“I would love to feel good, I would love to throw on a dress and feel like…yeah,” says Diane. “I’ve just always known boys and been around men, and been in a men’s environment. You just tend to get to be one of the men.”
Having successfully transformed their five ladies, Trinny and Susannah are ready for an even bigger challenge and set off to meet a team of factory workers at the John Smedley knitwear factory in Derbyshire. The factory has over 300 workers and the girls want to see if they can glamorise an entire workforce.
Susannah says: “We thought ‘where is it hardest to dress up?’ And that’s on the factory floor.”
With trepidation Trinny and Susannah meet the team – their mission is to make the reluctant work force change for ‘dress up’ rather than ‘dress down’ Friday.
Trinny and Susannah have a hard time convincing the workers, who see no reason to dress up for work, that they should make an effort for themselves and each other. So they select four members of staff to be their ‘ambassadors for change’ to help convince the rest of the factory to give glamour a go.
One of the ambassadors, 19-year-old Sahara, recently had a devastating bowel disease and now wears a colostomy bag. The illness made her lose a lot of weight so she hid her thin frame and bag with loose clothes. Having now regained her figure, she undergoes the biggest transformation of all the volunteers.
Top hairdresser Richard Ward is on hand to revamp Sahara’s fine, lifeless hair that suffered due to her illness while Trinny and Susannah address her wardrobe.
A tearful Sahara says of her transformation: “I can’t say I’ve looked in the mirror and looked at my face and thought I looked nice any time lately, sometimes when I look in the mirror I think I still look poorly. I don’t look poorly now.”
All the glamorous re-styles are a success – but will the rest of the factory workers follow suit? If they do there’s a treat in store in the form of a trip to Chatsworth House for a night of pure glamour and decadence.
Trinny and Susannah return the next morning and, although it appears most of the workers have embraced the new look and made more effort for their working day, some people have ignored the girls advice and are still in their boring jeans and t-shirts.
Will the girls be able to coax them out of their comfort zones, if even just for one special day?
Thursday, 28 August 2008, 9:00PM – 10:00PM ITV1
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