The Fashion Guide
to Season 5 (1967-8)

©1961-9

The shift is light and short, a layer of patterned silk floating over the body of navy stretch cotton.

The picture top left best illustrates this - a gossamer layer floats away from the rest of the outfit as Mrs Peel turns around.

A good indication of the cut and cloth comes from Twiggy's photshhot with Patrick Macnee, she wears this outfit in the two shots which you can see on the right.
Dig! Isn't Twiggy the bomb?
For some reason she's wearing Mrs Peel's big plastic watch on her ankle.
You can view a swatch of the pattern here.

Worn in a couple of scenes in The Bird Who Knew Too Much.

Also worn without the jacket, revealing a tan long sleeved dress (mid-thigh length) with white shoes - this dress is on display here.

The scooped waist - like a bell-shaped piece of cloth has been cut out of the front of the jacket - is visible the shots on the right, from From Venus With Love. top: Mrs Peel is standing outside Lord Mansford's vault, cocktail in hand, wait until "the clock strikes three". bottom: She enters Mansford's hall.
The image near right is from The Bird Who Knew Too Much, when Steed and Mrs Peel are investigating Danvers' body below the fire tower. For the rest of the episode she dispenses with the jacket.

Worn in The Bird Who Knew Too Much during a photo shoot. Emma is advertising British Agriculture... somehow.

Tom S.: "There! A sewing machine.. that'll give them something to think about!"
Emma : "It'll have them in stitches."

Worn in the prelude of the tag scene of The Bird Who Knew Too Much, just as Steed fires an arrow in the window.

©1961-9

Worn in the opening scene of The Winged Avenger.

The jacket is the same as the one worn in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Station (see above).

Worn in The Winged Avenger.

A brief appearance as the Avengers investigate the second murder in as many nights in the same office. You'd think there'd be a bobby around...

Worn with white gloves, brown ankle boots in The Winged Avenger.

©1961-9

Worn in The Winged Avenger - Mrs Peel infiltrates Sir Lexius Cray's house wearing it. The material has the heavy cross-stitching that makes it appear quilted.