A FASHION show featuring outfits from across the decades was used in Furness to help celebrate a half-century of international aid work.

The Mail, on Saturday, November 7 in 1992, noted: "Fifty years of hard work by Oxfam was celebrated in Barrow on Thursday night with an evening of moods and nostalgia.

"David Marcus directed and compered the show which featured clothes through the years, most of which had been donated to Oxfam.

"Hairdressing students and Barrow Sixth Form College students modelled the clothes and Yvonne Patterson sang.

"Joel of Review hairdressers talked about hair for the 1990s and Janet Worth, Oxfam's district retail manager talked about the organisation's work.

"Forum 28 was two-thirds full for the event which was to raise funds for Oxfam and increase the town's awareness of its work."

Oxfam was born in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief and early campaigns held the Greek Red Cross and starving Germans after the end of the Second World War.

Oxfam opened its first charity shop in 1948 and today runs 650 of them with the help of 23,000 volunteers.