Disco Queen

What every young woman with any pretentions to glamour needs right now is a long gown (preferably in a bright colour and made of chiffon) with a built-in diaphanous cloak that she can elegantly swirl around her.

Pictured here on the dance floor, today’s young lady swishes her angel wings like a drifting cloud; her feet however, are firmly fixed to earth and elegantly shod in lolly pink.

What every young woman with any pretentions to glamour needs right now is a long gown…

At some point in the 1970s the Sydney label Silver Star produced this fantastic concoction of pink and green swirls. Then it cost the princely sum of $76 – I know because I purchased the dress with the original label attached. When I bought it from Fat Helen’s in Windsor for a costume party quite a few years ago, I paid $22, which was very inexpensive for the time (the prices there are still very good).

I wondered if the dress had ever been worn before the one and only time I donned it for public delectation? It seems a pity that a few more people shouldn’t see it.

(NB. See the dress from a few more angles in the Out-takes & Extras gallery.)