I am putting together my costume for Goodwood Revival and have bought a hat to upcycle. How lucky we are to have such great charity shops here in Gosport and we can all do our bit to help the global warming crisis.

good morning royal clarence marina welcome to royal clarence radio and welcome to everyone from around the world who doesn't live here i know that i get a lot of downloads from india at the moment we're picking india and of course america who are the biggest listeners of podcasts in the world so welcome america and welcome india now then i'm looking for my i'm perfecting my costume now as you know i don't know if you do but i run i'm a stylist and i run one of my businesses is a fancy dress styling business and i'm putting together some 1940s costumes for goodwood goodwood revival on the weekend of the 18th that's when i'm going with saturday only a few weeks away very very excited i'm putting together a 40s outfit i needed a hat and the thing is when you buy a hat you know a professionally made hat a constructed milliner's effort they can cost hundreds thousands thousands of pounds now i met a hat designer to the queen quite a bit recently david i've forgotten his name i should know it was in in london i was at a swanky bar and i'll find out i'll talk talk about him later but for today we're just talking about how to cheat and how not to have to pay hundreds thousands whatever of pounds hard earned actors on a hat for what a one-day event is why i do hire you see but anyway i wanted something that i hadn't worn before and that was quite exciting because my costume is sort of i'm gay i'm not going for this sort of land girls um you know the lower uh the can i say lower class live on air well there we go i've said it i'm going for posh posh totti you see so i wanted something that looked like a 1940s sort of movie star designer and i was thinking oh i don't want to pay you know ebay prices it's all 40 quid up and um i don't want to pay designer prices which are hundreds of pounds up so i thought well i'm gonna go to the church shops i'm gonna and i'm big on eco at the moment of course the whole country is big on eco um we're all trying to think of ways that we can help to our bit and not buy all this cheap imported plastic stuff it's rubbish anyway it doesn't wash it doesn't last it's very hard to clean because once you've worn it once it's really soiled it's over it's done with it that's why we we have to bend this stuff that you know within a very short period of ownership so what do you think i did well i went to i think it was the rspca it was indeed the rspca have a wonderful string of very lovely church shops and the reason i like them is because well the one in gospel is very spacious it's very open to covered concerns can be a bit less worrisome um but it's all very clean and you know some some charity shops are great because they're a bit rummagy um but if you like that sort of thing that's fine but but if you don't if you like your um it presented well and nice and clean and you know tidy and color coordinated that's always quite useful isn't it so you can see where everything is because what i do now because i do the charity shop rounds a lot i walk in and i've i'm like a scanner i'm a little beady-eyed old lady scanners on me like that with my eyes i just i just go around the shop and it saves me doing the rummage darning so i don't want to be rummaging too much um anyway i found a hat it was four pounds from the rspca in yellow and cream of course i'm going to completely cut it up now i'm a stylist that's what we do so i'm going to cut the rim because because i've noticed with the uh 40s hats i don't know it was because of the war because because um uh you know fabrications were uh hard to come by or or i don't know something the hats all seem to be half hats and they didn't seem to wear a whole hat it's just like they cut them in half and stuck a bow on and it's a little bit more...