The Great British Sewing Bee 6x7 - Eighties Week

With Joe Lycett hosting, the six remaining home sewers headback in time to the 1980s, attempting to revive the glamorous- and sometimes ridiculous - style of the decade. This is morethan a stroll down memory lane, as they tackle the decade'smost tailored, fun and over the top garments.First, judgesPatrick Grant and Esme Young challenge the sewers to get downto business with the trickiest pattern so far, a woman's powerjacket. Creating the perfect jacket involves grappling withtailoring fabrics and taking on such daunting technical hurdlesas lapel construction and inserting shoulder pads, hopefullywithout getting in a flap. For the transformation challenge,it's party time as the sewers let rip with their imagination,turning high-vis work clothes into party outfits.In themade-to-measure challenge, the sewers take on their final iconof eighties fashion, the cocktail dress. Working with bold,shiny fabrics, they must create a knee-length-or-above dressthat embodies the excess of the 1980s. Who will disco dancetheir way to garment of the week, and for whom will eightiesweek signal the end of an era, as they become the seventhsewer to wave goodbye to the Great British Sewing Bee?