To what extent have you two influenced each other�s style over the years?

Heledd: My mother wouldn�t be very happy if I said she influenced my style! When I young, clothes were practical things for me, something to keep me warm, dry and to stop me being naked! I loved going out on my bike, climbing or riding horses, I had no interest whatsoever in clothes. Then I went through a stage when I was a teenager, you know when you feel embarrassed by your parents, well I think my mother was embarrassed of me! My mother is on the complete opposite of the scale to me! I remember feeling embarrassed because my mother obviously had to dress quite glamorous, so she always had a lot of make-up and big clothes and I would sometimes think � why can�t she just dress like the other mothers?

Elinor: To tell you the truth I would dread what Heledd would wear from one day to the next. But it was fantastic; she would never spend money on clothes because she bought everything from Oxfam! She came home one day having bought something that I would have thrown out a decade ago! It was a maroon velvet jacket with big lapels from the 70s and I remember her telling me how nice it was and all I could say was �great!�

In the 80s I had big shoulders, big jewellery, big lapels � big everything! I also wore high heels which I still wear today! But our styles are completely different. I tend to dress more formally than Heledd; I wear tailored, structured clothes whereas Heledd tends to wear dresses and clothes which are more fluid.

This is a very nice suit.

E: I haven�t kept a lot of my clothes from the 70s and 80s, but I have kept this one. It�s a Janice Wainwright suit and I bought it in the late 70s early 80s and wore it a lot on my S4C show. I don�t wear it now, but I might start wearing it again. Because it�s a classic and not a fashion suit I can wear it again. It�s so well made and I still love the colour and feel of it.

This is a retro dress, where did it come from?

H: I was invited to a 60s and 70s party in Llandeilo and needed something to wear, then I remembered my mum had this 70s dress. It�s suede and quite heavy. You could wear it inside out because it�s so beautifully hand made. I also think that this dress works today as well and I�ve worn it on television on Wedi 7. It�s like history repeating itself!

Does it help to have a mother with such taste?

H: I have to be quite careful sometimes because we can both go for the same kind of clothes, and that has happened once or twice!

Do you two go shopping together?

H: We tend to shop separately but I will call mum up and tell her if I have been shopping so that the next time she comes round I can show her my new clothes. I think I�ve now reached a point when I can say I�m confident enough to know what suits me.

Where did you get this suit?

E: This came from a dress shop in Llandeilo called Mela. It was the colour that caught my attention and the shape of the puff-ball skirt. When I put it on it�s very tight around my waist, and because I�m so small I like to wear clothes that highlight my waist otherwise I look like box!

This looks like a fun dress!

H: This is a fun dress. I liked the cut of it and there is also something very feminine about it, it�s quite kitsch!

Do you follow fashion?

H: I�m aware of fashion but I don�t follow it, I�m not a slave to it. I think it�s very important not to lose yourself in fashion.

E: It�s funny because fashion takes everyone over in the end. It�s around us everywhere and so you can�t help but be influenced by it. But I think my style is quite simple really and unfortunately all my clothes revolve around being on television.

Do you remember the first thing you wore on television?

E: Yes, it was a red leather suit, waistcoat and trousers. I had to hold a monkey on my lap, and it made a little mess, so I was quite fortunate that it was leather really!

H: One of the first things that I remember getting was a red jacket when I started on Uned 5 on S4C when I was 21 � over 10 years ago! I remember a woman from the wardrobe department, Bet, buying it for me. We�d gone shopping to Chester for the day and I got this which was quite expensive. When I wore it I felt special and safe. I went through a phase when I wasn�t sure what my style was and what suited me, but when I wore this I knew I looked good because Bet had bought it!

Because you were on S4C right at the beginning, was there pressure on you to look good?

E: Yes, there were high expectations of me. But there was a period of feminism in Wales at the time and there was a lot of cruel things written about me by women in papers such as Y Cymro and Y Faner saying things such as �who does she think she is in her satin suits sitting on that settee!� I had a lot of stick form a lot of women in the press because it was the time when women wore dungarees, and if you believed in feminism, clothes weren�t important to you!

Where did this jacket come from?

E: I went to the opera one night wearing this, and you know that feeling you get when you know that somebody�s watching you? I turned round and they said �it�s all right, we�re just reading you!� And they were reading what I had on the back of my jacket which is �You can�t judge a girl by her clothes!� So they really were reading me!

What�s your style?

E: Style evolves. And of course when you get to my age you�ve seen it all before! Clothes from the 50s, 60s and 70s, they�ve all come back � none of it is new!

H: I think it�s very dangerous to say �this is my style� because I think it�s very healthy for it to evolve over time. I also believe that if you keep an interest in your clothes you also keep an interest in yourself and that�s very important and healthy mentally as well.