Last year I had coffee with a reader who is friends with Lady Bracknell. Lady Bracknell is a long term reader, some time commenter and old friend of Lady Melbourne and was the one to take the photos you see of me here.
I’m wearing a dress that belonged to Mother Melbourne well before the term ‘boho’ had entered fashion consciousness. The last time I blogged it the reaction was mixed, but I love it for a whole range of reasons- the colour, the fabrication, the classic 1970s style and of course the fact that it belonged to my mum.
Do you have clothing that you wear for sentimental reasons? I have a wardrobe full of dresses and the like that I’ve kept over the years because of the meaning it holds for me. The shoes that I bought and wore to my first graduation, the dress I wore on my 21st birthday, the vintage brocade ball gown I wore at 17 to my first formal. The list goes on and on and even though I don’t get so much wear out of some pieces these days I will never be able to let them go.
