Little Angela Wearing Long Tall Sally, Dress of the day 788
Angela Lasnbury, wearing Long Tall Sally Dress 789. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Copyright. Dress The dress was bought second hand from St Luke's shop in Hatch End. It cost five pounds. The colours are orange in three shades, mainly the bright, but darkest, Mandarin colour background. Two paler oranges on the flowers. Also, some white and a little black, for some of the pattern of flowers and leaves or buds on talks. The style is a tunic. Sleeveless. Buttons and Unusual Button Fastenings The buttons are the unusual part. One button is visible at the top. Eight others, pearly orange, the size of shirt buttons, are hidden by the placket, upwards facing. However, here's the interesting part, two extra buttons are downward facing. They do up in buttonholes cut into the buttonhole section. The are at bust height and below. I presume they are to stop the garment gapping there. It is quite hard to do them up, downwards facing. I have never seen that before. The label says made in China...