Off to the ball!

My daughter went to her friend’s 6th form leavers’ ball last weekend in a dress made from parts of a Boue Soeurs 1920s ‘robe de style’, remodelled around 1960 – and taken in by her mother. The bodice has machine-made chantilly lace in silk layered over black and white tulle – the skirt is more prosaic cotton chantilly – with silk ribbon rosebuds. Tres jeune fille, as they used to say….