This French silk mantua is decorated with silver brocade in Indian style embroidery and a silver lace trim and was thought to have been worn by Mary, Marchioness of Rockingham the wife of the Prime Minister, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
In Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway our titular character moves through her much-anticipated party elegantly in a silver-green mermaids dress with the perfect ease and air of a creature floating in its element. In Atonement , too, McEwan writes of Cecilia discarding a pink frock for being too innocently pale, instead appraising her emerald-clad appearance: It was a mermaid who rose to meet her in her own full-length mirror. AdvertisementADVERTISEMENT Perhaps we too want to be in thrall to green at the moment coolly submerged and transformed into something mythic, hungering after its suggestion of unapproachability (think of Gatsbys green light across the water, or the distant call of Ozs Emerald City)
You should definitely ask your bridesmaids
"Two nights before, Geri said, 'You know what, Emma, I'm not really comfortable with the dress I'm wearing, I've got a much better idea," Poole later told The Telegraph
Top center drawer with felt-lined jewelry tray
