Secret Garden Opera Duster (Full Length)

$148.00

Vibrant, exotic and luxurious — welcome to our secret garden! This imaginative piece features the image of a woman in resplendent dress carrying lilies through her garden, which was painted in 1871. The architectural elements, including the spired chateau and decorative wall panels were painted during the same era, and the charming swan comes from a drawing done in 1580. The beautiful branch with oranges and birds comes from an antique Japanese woodblock print. The trim combines two different French textile prints from the 1800’s... and for a final, whimsical flourish, we added the image of a pair of embroidered velvet slippers and a Parisian fan, both circa 1900.

100% viscose (derived from plant fibres such as bamboo and wood). Machine wash gentle or handwash and hang to dry. Iron to finish if needed.

Includes removable belt.

Approximate measurements: length 118cm, width 78 cm. Model is 5’5” for reference.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.”
- Mary Cantwell

“To plant a garden is to dream of tomorrow.”
- Audrey Hepburn

How To Wear

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The vibrant colours in this delightful piece are so much fun to style! For a bohemian look, layer it over a simple linen dress and add some statement accessories like bold earrings and a cool belt. It also looks super cute with distressed jeans, a knit tank and a straw bag for a more laidback vibe. And don’t forget to pack it along on your travels — this piece will take you from poolside to afternoon shopping and then dinner out with style and ease!The vibrant colours in this delightful piece are so much fun to style! For a bohemian look, layer it over a simple linen dress and add some statement accessories like bold earrings and a cool belt. It also looks super cute with distressed jeans, a knit tank and a straw bag for a more laidback vibe. And don’t forget to pack it along on your travels — this piece will take you from poolside to afternoon shopping and then dinner out with style and ease!

Our Muse

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The daydreamer, the bohemian. Women who tend their lives with curiosity and wonder, who cultivate beauty and imagination. Women who carry gardens inside them.

More Inspo

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The art form of Victorian collage — which we used to create this enchanting design — is a testament to the whimsical creativity of the 19th century. This delightful pastime, especially popular among Victorian women, involved cutting and pasting a kaleidoscope of images from magazines, books, and personal photos into marvellous new compositions. Everyday pictures were transformed into fanciful scenes filled with flowers and romantic landscapes, and the artists would often add their own hand-drawn touches to the images to make them even more colourful and playful. Victorian collages weren’t just pretty pictures though! They were a creative outlet for the women who made them, and an important form of storytelling — capturing the era’s fascination with nature, family, and love :)

The Poem

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Though I try, 
the whole garden of you
will not fit inside my eye.
Fineness of lilies, 
alyssum and weedy yarrow, wild 
meadowsweet. The fruits
of your labours, impossible  
persimmons grafted
to an apple tree. And the secret
fallow places you hide,
where orphan seeds 
wait patiently, for rain. 

I still wander the tireless
seasons of you, where even
the silence between us 
fills with flowers. Sometimes
I glimpse the greenhouse on the hill
if I am lucky — its trusses and purlin
ribs, your humming heart of bees,
that tended place 
where I meet myself,
and am welcomed.