Polly dress

Size Chart

There is 2-3 cm difference according to manual measurement. Please check the measurement chart carefully before you buy the item. Due to the light and screen, a slight color difference may be expected. Thank you for your understanding!

If an allotment ever dressed for the village flower show, it would look a lot like ‘Polly’.

Our atelier lays the bodice out like tidy garden plots, colour-contrast squares of buttermilk and rose knitted with pointelle openwork, each planted with a hand-embroidered bloom in buttercup yellow, marmalade orange or mauve, with olive leaves. We stretched the grid from three rows to four after fit testing, because three sat the waist too high and read a little maternity. The cream neckline isn’t a full cup: the seam where it meets the grid doubles as the bust dart, so it suits different cup sizes and gives a little coverage at the sides. Gold buckle straps run longer or shorter to match your bust point. A scalloped neckline, crocheted entirely by hand after several flower shapes were tested, frames it all.

Below, embroidered vines identical to the original’s climb a smoky rose heather knit, soft as petals pressed in a diary, and nearly 6 hours went into drawing them before a single stitch. We took your notes on the original, so the A-line now sweeps wider, covers the calf and flatters pear shapes, ending in a longer, denser cotton lace hem. The palette is deeper too, brightening the skin and leaving the house with you rather than staying home.

Twenty one hours of ÀMBA handwork go into every ‘Polly’, which is how a dress earns a blue ribbon. The 45 count anti-pilling wool blend yarn is soft, light, moisture absorbing and breathable, and it resists losing shape.

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