Venetia Rainey and Charlie Kirkbride
Summer has arrived sweet little yorkies and yorklettes, and thus the time has come to don one’s Panama, quaff Pimm’s and snidely remark upon your neighbour’s cricketing capabilities. Contrary to popular belief, York occasionally enjoys the rare English phenomenon commonly known as ‘sunshine’. That frequently elusive, freckle-enhancing, tan-line-exacerbating, Jack Wills-esque clime is just around the corner.
As Toby Maguire surmised in 2002, ‘with great power comes great responsibility’. And so it follows that we must inform our loyal fashionista the following: ‘With the arrival of the British sun comes the infinite responsibility to locate the perfect summer frock.’ Don’t get your frilly knickers in a twist, however, as the all-seeing eyes of Miss V and Miss C have noted an allotment-influenced propensity towards favouring floral prints this summer.
From the gourmet delicacies of Balenciaga, Etro and Dries Van Noten, to the rather more crude offerings of New Look and Primark – floramania has taken over. Delicate tea roses, childlike daisies, full figured peonies, and ornate orchids are currently splattered across garments as though flowers were going out of fashion. These days it is apparently easier to dress as the living embodiment of a greenhouse than as a human being.
Sugary shades of purple, sunset tinged feminine pink hues and frills and trills sicken the senses. Thank god the boys have more sense than we do, as the lengthening daylight hours kick our girlie instinct into full flow.
However, cynical in nature as we are, we do not denounce this floral phenomenon. Like other gullible fashion wannabes, we will follow this trend to the death. Yet little ones, we do offer the following modest but professional advice – choose with care. The line between floral sex kitten and frumpy, but sexually active grandma is a fine one. One minute you’re Mischa Burton in cute rose patterned baby-doll dress, the next you may be Pat Butcher on a bad day, suffering from a severe bout of colour-blindness.
Beware, dear reader…
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