The Ossie Clark exhibit from whence this picture comes is long over, but the nice thing about museums (especially the V&A, which is the spiritual home of The Dress) is that they don’t throw stuff away. Heck, they don’t even take down old websites! Thus, today’s dress. Which makes me wish (and not for the first time) that I were a six-foot-tall glamazon. (Barefoot at the party, of course, and dripping with gypsy gold-coin jewelry … ) You can see it again, in context, here.

Be sure to scroll down to the dress and coat with big red floral design (Celia Birtwell’s “Floating Daisy”).