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Bailey Dowery is a dressmaker who harbors a secret in 1950s Oklahoma.

Louise and Beatrice and I were up half the night every night, bringing down snippets of satin and serge that had fallen from the dressmakers’ scissors.

It is also a nod to London's famous rag trade - the city's fabric merchants, tailors and dressmakers who once dominated the area where the Barbican Centre now stands.

Hisako Hibi would always find time to paint, often early in the mornings before she had to start work as a dressmaker, her daughter said.

A dressmaker’s dummy, tiled with mirrors, is lowered like a disco ball, and the show’s title figures in the lyrics.