A Stitch in Time

BBC FOUR, 8.30PM

 This fascinating series finds fashion historian Amber Butchart displaying a variety of eye-catching headgear to scrutinise Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait for clues about its subjects and the 15th-century world that they inhabited. Couturier Ninya Mikhaila, meanwhile, recreates the gown worn by the painting’s pregnant woman. GT