The Pyjama Suit

1970s, Arnaud de Rosnay, chelsea cobbler, Chloe, Inspirational Images, karl lagerfeld, kurt geiger, The Purple Shop, Vogue
White crepe de chine dressing-gown and pyjama trousers stroked with Neapolitan colours, pistachio, pink, blue, orange, yellow. White straw with enough shade to keep your ice-cream from melting. Patent platform sandals of yellow, scarlet, green, £12.95, at Kurt Geiger. Simulated pearls, £4.95, at Paris House. Skin looked after with the new Piz Buie Exclusive Oil Factor 2, lips with Exclusive Lip Protection.

The pyjama suit of high summer up on the roofs, down in the streets of Sidi Bou Zid.

Both suits by Chloe.

Photographed by Arnaud de Rosnay.

Scanned from Vogue, May 1972.

Ice-cream crepe de chine sashed pyjama dress and dressing-gown jacket in black diamonds. Black bordered, the jacket with black flower. Both suits by Chloe, each about £180, at Browns. Black straw, and white, by Dolores, £10 each, at Harrods. Black leather and wood sandals, £5.95, at The Chelsea Cobbler. Ivory beads to the waist, t10, at The Purple Shop.

Inspirational Images: Tipper Ipper Appa

1960s, Arnaud de Rosnay, british boutique movement, Chelsea Antiques Market, granny takes a trip, Inspirational Images, Lida Ascher, Tipper Ipper Appa, Vogue

Some of the most perfect shells in the world get washed up on Stocking Island beaches; as does this small jacket and wide trousers in stripes from a beach umbrella. In crepe with a fine rolled gold chain almost invisible at the waist. By Tipper Ipper Appa, 25 gns, at Granny Takes a Trip. Chain with a small pearl, 40s, at Paris House. Striped scarves round the head, Lida Ascher Boutique. Enamel bird, Chelsea Antique Market.

Some of the most perfect shells in the world get washed up on Stocking Island beaches; as does this small jacket and wide trousers in stripes from a beach umbrella. In crepe with a fine rolled gold chain almost invisible at the waist. By Tipper Ipper Appa, 25 gns, at Granny Takes a Trip. Chain with a small pearl, 40s, at Paris House. Striped scarves round the head, Lida Ascher Boutique. Enamel bird, Chelsea Antique Market.

Photographed by Arnaud de Rosnay. Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Vogue, May 1969

Inspirational Images: Fulham Road Clothes Shop, 1969

1960s, annacat, Arnaud de Rosnay, british boutique movement, corocraft, fulham road clothes shop, Inspirational Images, sylvia ayton, Vogue, zandra rhodes

Drifting gypsy dress in early morning sea colours. Scarf, top and trousers, 11gns, at the Fulham Road Clothes Shop. Silver chaining over the head by Carlton Payne, about £10, at Annacat. Silver rings by Corocraft.

Superb piece by all-too-scarce design duo Sylvia Ayton and Zandra Rhodes for the Fulham Road Clothes Shop.

Featured in Vogue, May 1969. Photographed by Arnaud de Rosnay.