Evacuee For The Day

Miss Belle is an evacuee for a day

on a school trip to Shugborough Hall.

Surprisingly for us we didn't have a suitable frock

 so I knocked this one up at the weekend, everything else we had in.

We had a bit of a debate about dress length,

 obviously it would have been a lot shorter but I wanted her to be able to wear it again.

  We decided the length by the good old fashioned, 'touch your toes can we see your knickers' test!

I think the boy doll is about the right period.

I bought it years ago with the intention of tidying it up for Louis

 but then I just couldn't bear to.

  He has been waiting for just this day.

As has this fabric, it's been in someones stash since before we went decimal

- February 1971.