Thursday May 22
9:30pm

This week in TRINNY AND SUSANNAH UNDRESS THE NATION, the style experts tackle age. So many women fail to dress their age – whether they dress too old or too young. The girls aim to encourage older women to reclaim the high street and show how the aging process can be diluted and cracks can be smoothed over.

To assess how women’s bodies change as they age, the girls arrange 11 women in just their underwear between the ages of 20 and 70 to create a human time line see how the aging process effects the way we look.

As they tour the country in the pink pod they begin to unearth the fact that older women dress to hide themselves, they don’t feel they can make the effort or stand out because they don’t have the confidence or knowledge of what to wear to make the most of their selves.

In order to face her biggest fear Susannah enlists the help of plastic surgeon, David Ross, and prosthetic expert, Christian Mallet who embark on the challenge of ageing Susannah overnight.

Christian and David use pictures of Susannah throughout her life, and details about her lifestyle, to create a face and body mask to age her as accurately as possible to how she may look at 70 years old.

Aged to perfection and barely able to look at herself in a mirror, Susannah heads to Croydon to meet 71-year-old grandmother of eight, Shirley Tripe, who will be attempting to dress the 70-year-old Susannah from one of her own favourite stores.

Trinny takes the aged Susannah and Shirley shopping and tries to tackle what she and Susannah believe is the common mistake made by older women - buying clothes that are too big and opting for comfort over shape or style.

Shirley is fiercely resistant to the changes the girls are trying to implement, insisting the clothes don’t fit and that she is ‘mutton dressed as lamb’ in a plain white shirt and tailored trousers.

Trinny quickly realises that they are going to have to change tactics in order to persuade the older ladies to adopt their way of thinking – they’re much more stubborn and set in their ways than their usually younger subjects.

So they hit the seaside resort of Worthing and invite a group of local ladies to a cream tea, with a clothes master class. Ultimately their ambition is to empower the older ladies in to believing that they can and will find things in high street stores to suit them no matter their age – without looking like the proverbial mutton.