But it was just too cold to dress-up for the TV-affair. Still I decided to add a little bit of French chic with a silk dress bought at Yesterday in Robson Street, Central in the early 80's. It was created by Y.P. Dubois of Nice in the 60's. This "very summery" dress "posed" on the chair next to me, while the matching scarf was wrapped around my neck (over my warm black velvet house pyjamas!). To top it off, I wore my wide-brimmed plain ivory hat, decorated with 3 pale roses, by Frederick Fox of London (sourced at Bargain Box in Walmer).
And it was in this nostalgic mood that I watched the wedding guests arrive in the most stylish outfits...
Zelda Kotze is wearing the dress here (refer Down Memory Lane fashion show). You can see that it is showing signs of age because I could never refuse my friends borrowing it.
This dress has "experienced" other memorable events. My friend Roline Norval wore it to the re-opening of the PE Opera House somewhere in the 90's (she was Arts editor of Die Burger at the time). In 1994, I wore it to Nelson Mandela's inauguration! (That was some more time spent in front of the television) and
had it on in 1983 attending my (20 year) matric reunion in Middelburg.
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