Bowl of Beauty

A Summer Dress

Black Currants!

Friday Flowers in June

Garden Growing

An Island

School Girls

Lady Frances’s Robe à la Française

multiple pinked strips

Lady Frances’s  final garment is a Robe à la Française, made of a length of butter yellow silk from Lady Frances’s trunk, and making good use of Janet Arnold’s wonderful book Patterns of Fashion 1Englishwomen’s dresses 1660 – 1860.

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