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UK Vanity Fair, February 1965

Big news little prints

There's a certain kind of primness coming along with the newest dresses. Most of them have sleeves; short and puffy, three-quarter and frilled, or long and cuffed. And most of them are printed with tiny flower designs that might have come straight from a Victorian wallpaper. Colours are pretty: smudgy blues and greens, alone and mixed; sunny-hued yellows; oranges and pink with beige, and the clear-cut definition of black and white.

Miss Novell
[LEFT]
A wonderful shape this dress. It's close and skimmy, has a high-line frill circled with braid, frill edging for the sleeves. The colours: pink, blue and primrose. By Miss Novell, 7 gns.
[RIGHT]
Prettiness plus looks: more black and whiteness, this partnership stressed with white broderie Anglaise edging the double frills of the sleeves. matching headscarf comes with the dress. By Highlight Sports, 90s; 6d. Marguerite bangle by Jewelcraft, 21s. 		Highlight Sports

John Bates at Jean Varon
[LEFT]
Two with a businesslike tag. Stiffened white pique lights up a caramel, orange and yellow flowered dress at the collar and cuffs. The shape, narrow, clingy, shifty. By John Bates at Jean Varon, 8 1/2 gns.
[RIGHT]
dark, olivey green flowers are massed against a white background on a simple, shaped dress. Outlining the front, a double track of contrasting braid, the same for the flared-out sleeves. Sugar Daddy by California, 5 gns. 		Sugar Daddy by California

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