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Article: Get out your gardening gloves
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 19, 1995
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Floral Fashion used to be a contradiction in terms. People wore
"fashion" (as opposed to "clothes") when they wanted to look up to
the minute. In contrast, the floaty floral dress was about
acceptable dressing that never went out of style . . . but never
quite came into it either.
Until this summer, designers - especially those at the cutting
edge - left the rose and the lilic bloom pretty much alone. Pretty
floral prints were the preserve of vintage tea dresses (or their
contemporary reissues by Ralph Lauren, who is more a superb stylist
than a fashion designer). Florals were for country garden fetes,
tea parties on the lawn, or for those who wished they could be
attending either instead ...