Can a fleece ever be fashionable?

The synthetic fleece is 30 years old and can be found in almost every walk of life - except the world of high fashion. The BBC took this humble, workaday garment to London Fashion Week last month to see what the style tribe made of it.

Despite its near total absence from the catwalks, since polarfleece first went on sale in 1979, it has become the nation's outerwear of choice, whether for pottering in the garden or out on a bracing walk. It is practical, cheap, lightweight, and dries quickly. But stylish it is not! However, the gratifying thing about a fleece - aside from the warmth - is that it simply never has to look good.