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Dress: Selkie organza, lace
Ankle Boots: Wittner matte leather
Bag: Swinging Chicks Shop via Etsy velvet
Hinged Bangle: Wallace Bishop silver
Mask: Oroton woven hemp
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All the beautiful pictures from a morning spent twirling around the historical Glasshouse Gardens in Queens Park, Ipswich, which are reminders of the town's celebrated former park curators including Scotsman Alexander Munro, who supervised the building of the first glasshouse/hothouse in the park in the late 1870s to propagate red & white dahlias & the long-serving local-born Frederick Turley who was appointed in 1909 and who personally planted many of the trees dotted around the park and lining the avenues leading to the centre of the business district & St Paul's Anglican Church. Turley was actually instrumental in the creation of the 1930s glasshouse incarnation - the main one you see in these photographs - lovingly restored by a group of volunteers known as the Glebe Garden Club over the last decade years after being left to rack & ruin from the early 1990s.
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For the occasion, I'm wearing the utterly divine cheetah print organza "Fran" dress (how aptly named!) from whimsical American label Selkie with its exaggerated puff sleeves, voluminous skirt & extreme mini length that I augmented with a little black lace from my local Lincraft store around the square neckline that I've styled up with a black matte leather high-heeled ankle boots from Wittner to elongate my legs, a pair of vintage-inspired nylon tights with back seam & Eiffel Tower embroidered decal on the heels from Kitten D'Amour, a black velvet knot bag from a darling Spanish boutique called Swinging Chicks Shop, a chunky silver hinged bangle from Wallace Bishop & a woven hemp facemask from Oroton to complete the look in these pandemic-ridden times.
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