Jade Halbert has a different connection to the Mack than some other guests - she never studied or worked there, but saw it nearly every week of her life when visiting her Grannie in Cowcaddens.

I met Jade when she was a twenty-something proprietor of a wee vintage clothing shop downstairs from my old Skirving Street flat. Now, she is an expert academic, a BBC Next Generation Thinker who specialises in the histories of manufacturing in fashion. Her research is focused on recovering the unwritten histories of making with emphasis on the transmission of manual expertise across a range of production environments, from the factory to the home. Concentrating on oral histories and other first-hand acco ...