Bohemian Mirage Dress

A dress like this one might have brought about the Sixties ten years early. It’s a long way from the sobriety of the Fifties. A dress like this one might have brought about the Sixties ten years early. It’s a long way from the sobriety of the Fifties. It’s also a long way from the more recent past, when young women went around with nothing on at all. The floral and paisley print is so dense that the dress seems to have been cut out of a huge handkerchief, and so long that it would have made a tent for a regiment of boy scouts. Yet the overall effect is not so much Bohemian as Cubist. You are looking at a work of art. But it’s only a dress. It’s only a dress – but what is a work of art anyway? Aren’t we all works of art, or at least in the process of becoming so? This dress is just a little further on, that’s all. It’s a dress that knows where it’s going. And if you want to go there too, you’ll need it.