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Dress: The Pretty Dress Company cotton
Heels: Kitten D'Amour vegan leather
Bag: H&M woven straw
Hat: Vintage, Ipswich Antique Centre woven straw, raffia
Hinged Bangle: Gift, vintage silver
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Following on from yesterday's post, I'm sharing another one of British label The Pretty Dress Company's amazing cotton Hourglass Swing Dresses - this time the immensely popular Sicily Blue & White Rose print that, unlike the more muted Ivory & Black Polka Dot version, just screams "summertime in the South of France in the 1950s." With that in mind, I've styled it up for a daytime picnic, daytrip to a lavender farm, sojourn to an out-of-the-way art gallery or even a morning browsing around an antique fair or market stalls in a country town. To wit, I'm wearing a pair of leg-lengthening blue vegan leather art-deco-style t-bar heels from Kitten D'Amour to enhance the impact of the colour of the roses in the dress print, a natural woven shoulder bag from high street stalwart H&M to carry all the essentials, an antique silver hinged bangle covered in fleur-de-list that a dear friend gifted me for my 30th birthday for a modicum of daytime shine & finally, a vintage natural woven straw cloche hat with embroidered raffia flowers from the Ipswich Antique Centre to ward off the sun's harmful rays & truly * the "provincial" look of the entire ensemble.
It just goes to show that the choice of pattern or print can be incredibly important, as even though both of the dresses are cotton, the Ivory & Black Polka Dot number from yesterday (seen here) is able to be dressed up far more than the Sicily Blue & White Rose of today, which is more suited to casual endeavours.
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