A few years ago, I wore this Leslie Fay dress to a meeting at PBS (I was the Associate Director of Online Content and Social Media at PBS HQ then) and the director of the large project we were working on paused the meeting to comment that the dress print reminded her of (John) Cheever.
Here’s the print itself (maybe the horses made it a nostalgic print for her? I think the figures look Eastern European) and the belt with its fringe that looks like a window treatment end:

and earrings from even earlier (1942 London) that began as horseshoe buttons:

A few years ago, I wore this Leslie Fay dress to a meeting at PBS (I was the Associate Director of Online Content and Social Media at PBS HQ then) and the director of the large project we were working on paused the meeting to comment that the dress print reminded her of (John) Cheever.

Here’s the print itself (maybe the horses made it a nostalgic print for her? I think the figures look Eastern European) and the belt with its fringe that looks like a window treatment end:

December 16, 2009

and earrings from even earlier (1942 London) that began as horseshoe buttons:

December 16, 2009

A few years ago, I wore this Leslie Fay dress to a meeting at PBS (I was the Associate Director of Online Content and Social Media at PBS HQ then) and the director of the large project we were working on paused the meeting to comment that the dress print reminded her of (John) Cheever.
Here’s the print itself (maybe the horses made it a nostalgic print for her? I think the figures look Eastern European) and the belt with its fringe that looks like a window treatment end:

and earrings from even earlier (1942 London) that began as horseshoe buttons:

A few years ago, I wore this Leslie Fay dress to a meeting at PBS (I was the Associate Director of Online Content and Social Media at PBS HQ then) and the director of the large project we were working on paused the meeting to comment that the dress print reminded her of (John) Cheever.

Here’s the print itself (maybe the horses made it a nostalgic print for her? I think the figures look Eastern European) and the belt with its fringe that looks like a window treatment end:

December 16, 2009

and earrings from even earlier (1942 London) that began as horseshoe buttons:

December 16, 2009

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