Just a little mini post today... Still up in Manchester, cooking, and getting cooked for, pubbing around chorlton, and sleeping in the sun soaked rooms at my parents house. Bliss before the descent down to the back log of work, reading, research, and stitching to be done in London town. From the age of fourteen, I've been waiting to wear this dress, it was my mother's during the 70's, but the confidence to wear a full on, floor length dress, has finally caught up with my long standing love of hippy drippy dressing.
Beautiful silk indian printed dress with balloon sleeves, worn with snake skin print wedges, and a gold and bronze necklace. Feeling very floaty and romantic today indeed..even though, I'm full of a cold... and taking it very easy....
I don't have a tripod here, so I've used a very (low) coffee table, hence the reason the photos were landscape, and I look tiny, whilst the chairs look huge!!
These pictures are ace, very Alice in Wonderland! And that dress is absolutely, ridiculously beautiful. Has your mum given it to you?
Posted by: Ashiya | Sunday, 17 April 2011 at 08:20 PM
Thanks love, yeah my mum has given it to me... she used to let me wear it loads, swanning around the garden, but I never had the balls to wear it out...I absolutely adore it... I've just added some cropped pictures too, so you get a closer look.. x
Posted by: Raisa | Sunday, 17 April 2011 at 08:32 PM
Oooh, lovely dress! I went pubbing around Chorlton on Saturday, and the Big Green Festival at St Clement's Church. I've rarely seen so many white people with dreadlocks in one place. If you want to meet up for a coffee in Manchester, let me know!
Posted by: northwest is best | Monday, 18 April 2011 at 11:52 AM
Thanks Jacky! Yeah, we went to the festival too.... It was a lovely day for it too as well.. I'm back in London for a bit, but yeah I shall let you know! Rxx
Posted by: Raisa | Monday, 18 April 2011 at 03:17 PM
your house is beautiful! lovely windows!
Posted by: kirsteen | Tuesday, 19 April 2011 at 12:21 PM
Thanks Kirsteen, its one of my favourite spots in my parents' house, because it gets sun all day long, through those rather large windows!
Posted by: Raisa | Tuesday, 19 April 2011 at 01:00 PM
So cute.. Tiny Raisa. Big Chair. Lovely dress!
Posted by: Rikki | Thursday, 21 April 2011 at 08:43 AM
It looks lovely on you! Even though you just put the camera on a coffee table, you got great shots. Especially the first one! It looks dramatic and sophisticated. That little table and chair make for a perfect setting. You can also try doing a silhouette shot or an against-the-light shot since your background is that great window.
Posted by: Anthony Blommel | Monday, 17 October 2011 at 06:04 PM