You couldn’t make it up!
From AG 28 April 1906
A novel ball dress
We have published many examples of the uses to which our coloured plates are put by readers, but that of utilising them for making a fancy ball dress is undoubtedly the most novel and unique. One of our enthusiastic lady readers conceived the idea of embellishing her ball dress with 72 plates cut out and pasted on black muslin.
The dress, pictured right, was trimmed with green peas, and still further adorned with a pink silk sash on which the words ‘Amateur Gardening’ were written with chopped grass.
Slung across the lady’s left shoulder was a ‘hank’ of raffia, bearing four tools – a trowel, a fork, a rake with gilded handles, and a watering can. Across the lady’s back was a model garden fence made
