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Happy Days Pixie Duster (Cropped Length)

$120.00

This cheerful, nostalgic design was created out of a love for sunny afternoons — and a love for gingham. Classic, timeless, and full of charm, gingham evokes visions of afternoon picnics, country living, fresh baked pies and clotheslines full of clean laundry drying in the sunshine. We’ve captured those feelings in this whimsical kimono, with its easy, lived-in colour palette.

Featuring printed heritage gingham trimmed with strawberries by artist Elisabeth van de Kasteele, and a printed cross-stitch “patch” taken from a sampler done in 1836 by Eliza Hulse (who was 8 years old when she stitched it :)). Wear it running errands, out to the lake, or take it on a picnic — everywhere you go, it’s a happy day ;)

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.

Kimono measurements: length 58cm, width (across back, underarm to underarm) 74cm. Model is 5’5” for reference.

“She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of a strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.”
- Damon Runyon

“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”

- Toni Morrison

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”

- Audrey Hepburn

How To Wear

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Nostalgic, fresh, and super cute — we love matching this playful piece with casual sunny basics. Distressed denim or frayed jean shorts, washed linen separates, flip flops, and a straw bag equals market day outfit perfection! We also love this one layered up with a little black sundress and the matching scarf… and don’t forget to add a skip in your step ;)

Our Muse

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The girl-next-door, the joyful-hearted. Women who celebrate simple delights, and earthly riches. Women who laugh easily.

More Inspo

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When we found this wonderful petite painting of a strawberry by artist Elisabeth van de Kasteele, we fell instantly in love with it! (If you can fall in love with a strawberry ;)) Van de Kasteele likely painted it in the early 1800’s using ink and watercolour, and somehow managed to capture the sweetness of summer days in one small, joyful little berry. We think she’d be delighted to see her work made in to wearable art :)

The Poem

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This rare afternoon:
shells and seaglass in her pocket, 
worn shards of blue sky. Ice cream melting 
on rough paper napkins
sun on her eyelids painting warm
red silhouettes of seabirds
that cry and dive as though falling,
only to catch the wind in the last
second and rise — the wet breath of sea-spray
like applause. 

She licks the drips of ice cream
from her wrist, strawberries
and salt, the half remembered taste
of licking bowls and spoons
in a June-bright kitchen. Or berries
gathered in the apron of her t-shirt
heavy and warm, too sweet 
to save for jam. All the sacred days
where summer goes on forever, a clothesline
of dresses whirling like white wings 
diving and rising
in her throat. Her heart catches
the wind at the last second, always.