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Rate the dress: Pink and black in 1869

Last week there wasn’t a great deal of love for Maria Anna and her fabulously (there, I said it!) geometric gown.  A few of you shared my excellent taste (there, I said it again), many of you were ‘meh’, and a few of you really disliked it.  It came in at 6.4 out of 10 – not bad for 17th century Spanish princess, but not as much as that spectacular geometry deserved (yep, I’m going to keep saying it!) At least I won’t have much competition in the ‘it’s already been made’ stakes if I decide to make a reproduction of it! For this week’s rate the dress I’m going to present something with a lot of colour.  We’ve had quite a few not-particularly-vivid garments in a row: time for something a little different. This striking gown was sold at auction a while back.  It’s very vivid.  And vibrant. While it is much more colourful than Maria Anna’s dress, it shares the same enthusiasm for crazy geometricisation and pattern arrangement.  I clearly though the geometry …