The Portrait Sitting - Low-waste Boxy Top

Add a touch of romantic Victorian elegance to your wardrobe with this limited edition, low-waste cotton-linen boxy top. Featuring a beautiful oversized 19th-century botanical artwork, this versatile one-size top can be worn alone or over a variety of other garments. Matching fabric clutch sold separately.

One size fits most - see garment measurements below:

• FRONT LENGTH 45cm
• BACK LENGTH 45cm
• NECK 30cm
• BOTTOM WIDTH 90cm

Designed and made by Meg in The Patch, Australia. Printed in Thornbury by NextState Print on 94% cotton, 6% linen certified to OEKO-TEX Standard 100 (11-29208). 

All megsmithmakes garments are Ethical Clothing Australia accredited and made in Melbourne with natural fabrics and GOTS organic cotton thread. megsmithmakes is a proud member of Seamless Australia.

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"...two days had passed since the portrait had arrived, and she was still distracted by its direct gaze, She knew of the girl whose likeness it captured, but only through the quiet words of ladies who browsed the shop to idly admire the latest blooms. The girl had, it seems, captured the attention of a young and earnest artist from The Hague. A daughter of one of the local bakers, her situation was ordinary but her beauty was not. The portrait was a simple, somewhat rough watercolour, lit strongly from one side with contrast told in confident shapes that flowed across loose and urgent pencil marks. Her smooth and rounded features were captured as much by the absence of colour as by the shadows that defined them. She was facing away from the light, but her eyes were at the centre of the composition, looking expectantly back towards the artist and highlighted by two single shapes of emerald green and long undulating strokes of chestnut brown. The portrait had been delivered with instructions for my father, who was tasked with creating an arrangement for her hair whilst she posed in the gardens of the artists’ summer estate. Today the portrait sat, awaiting collection, beside two posies of pure white azalea and baby pink angelonia, held together by snaking tendrils of greenery…"

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