What to wear? - to a tea party

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

It's a balmy, autumnal afternoon. In the middle of the forest, on a carpet of gold and mahogany leaves, a dining table stands - complete with table cloth, tea cups, plates of sugary cakes and so many lace napkins. 

It's Teddy Bear's picnic meets Alice in Wonderland - a fairy tale. The invitation arrived in a baby blue envelope, scented, embossed paper with silver ink - but here's the question, what do you wear?

Enter the world's most adorable dress, as spotted in House of Fraser in Dundrum Town Centre this weekend. This beautiful TELAGO lace-embroidered dress by Ted Baker stopped me dead in my tracks as I was browsing DundrumTC - as is my usual weekend tradition.

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I'm currently racking my brain for an excuse to shell out for this beauty, but at least for today I have some daydreaming material.

I just thought I'd share the love on this wintery morning :)

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Stay tuned for my report on the Harvey Nichols Autumn/Winter Fashion Show this Wednesday! 

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xXx

Lisa

What I'm most looking forward to about Autumn...

The weather this summer, this year more like, has had a strange effect in nearly every corner of the world. Here in rainy ole' Ireland we've had it completely backwards. Farmers are up in arms. Apparently we'll be taking out mortgages to buy bread soon enough.

But the grey skys and gathering winds have not left me wanting for sun - three days in 30+ degrees in New York was all the sun I'll ever want to experience, in fact it just got me excited. Groundskeepers have been remarking that the wet, wet weather has caused many trees to turn early - and that's all I needed. Autumn. I love Autumn. It's the perfect season. I don't do heat very well, I feel suffocated, clammy, fatigued, I live for the days I can wrap up, curl up and and smell the scent of Autumn in the air. Realising just how late in the year it is all of a sudden becomes less of a shock when I think of the things I can look forward to.

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I love Autumn...

Not for it to be cold outside, for it to be a little bit chilly

For the mornings to be dusted with just a sprinkling of frost

For how it's spelled A-u-t-u-m-n, even that satisfies me

For the sight of steam rising hot coffee in take-away cups held in gloved hands

For gloves

For scarves

For soft, floppy wooly hats

For brown leather boots

For Golden Hour evenings

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For the crunch

For rich colours, for fiery oranges and soft reds

For pumpkins

For Halloween

For root vegetables

For hot Sunday breakfasts

For bright, grey mornings

For piles of leaves

For Autumn-blooming flowers

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For regular TV programming

For thigh-high wooly socks, always in grey

For Autumn/Winter collections

For flushed cheeks

Not for Christmas shopping, but starting to think about presents

For romantic fantasies of how Paris, London, New York and Boston look and what it would be like to be there

For long sleeves

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For cinnamon cocoa

For cinnamon anything

For the sight of the starts and the sound of the wind as I go asleep...

... These are the things I love Autumn for

"But I miss you most of all my darling When autumn leaves start to fall" - Autumn Leaves