THE SEXIEST SHIRT EVER SEEN ON TV

The BBC has adapted Pride And Prejudice five times, but one scene changed costume drama forever.

In the 1995 adaptation by Andrew Davies, hero Mr Darcy was originally meant to emerge from the lake naked.

Colin Firth objected, so a linen shirt (left) was provided as a compromise – and millions of female viewers swooned. It was designed by Dinah Collins to be accurate for the period, but with care for how it would appear to modern viewers. Ten million of them tuned into the final episode, many of whom were unaware that the iconic lake scene doesn’t appear in the novel at all.