Presentation dress · AI garment reconstruction.
Documented at the Hurlingham fashion show. Pink-and-white colouring is supported by a separate historical colour photograph.
Lea Pericoli · 1970
Victorian lace in miniature
A high lace collar, cascading bib and tiered mini skirt in pink and white.
The story behind the look
Pericoli presented this Victorian-inspired tennis outfit by Ted Tinling at the Hurlingham Club fashion show on 21 June 1970. Its high neckline and elaborate lace trim borrowed the decorative vocabulary of historical dress, compressed into a short tennis silhouette.
Concentric ruffles spread across the chest above a fitted lace torso. Closely spaced flounces repeat around the skirt. A colour photograph from the same summer shows pink fabric and white lace, supporting the palette used in the reconstruction.