My favourite dress

As an antidote to yesterday's grey,

I bring orange and pink,

to brighten another resolutely dull day.

And while trying to grasp at some evanescent memory

from childhood to do with a dress my mother made,

round necked, short sleeved and splashed with psychedelic daisies,

I came across some bright scraps of silk

from much the same era

and then this best dress, saved against all the odds,

through countless moves and

ruthless culls,

for nearly half a century.

My favourite dress.

(If you don't count The Grand Old Duke of York Dress,

the Jelly Dress and the Star skirt.)

What was your favourite dress?