Find your deep…
Secret clothing worn next to the skin is a delicious way to enjoy your own sensuality.
Siren Song
My daughter started talking of mermaids when she was four years old.. I am intrigued by how compelling these chimeric beings are. The Mermaid speaks to us of another self, beautiful, mysterious and impenetrable, wild and free. A mermaid's magic garment, a comb or Selkie skin contains ownership of a truthful self free to swim the deeps
greens and gold
I visited Portmeirion in Wales by the sea in childhood summers where the magical wonderland architecture is full of sea salted verdigris copper patina, Neptunes, mermaids and golden scrolls…
Femme Fatale
In the 19th century the first widely available green dye was developed using arsenic. Verde green dresses of the time contained as much as half their weight in arsenic, meaning that a ball gown fashioned from 20 yards of this fabric would have 900 grains of arsenic which powdered off whilst dancing. A 'grain' is based on an amount of 64.8 mg which is the weight of a wheat grain. Four or five grains were lethal for an adult, the BMJ called green clad women 'Femmes Fatales'. I dye my verde green silks myself, the modern dyes are not poisonous to wear...
“Well may the fascinating wearer of it be called a killing creature, she actually carries in her skirts poison enough to slay the whole of the admirers she may meet with in half a dozen ballrooms”
– Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews David
