![]() ![]() I was a founding member and I stayed put, so I ended up with all the gowns. We didn’t intend for members to leave, but when they did the gowns had to stay with the group. Nowadays, beadwork is often done by machinery, but our gowns were all beaded by hand. The neckline on these dresses was similar to some of the rounded, necklace-like African designs – the same on the sleeves, around the wrists. A lot of our gowns were covered with sequins, but sequins are not as heavy as pearls and diamonds. ![]() There was a diamond pattern, outlined in pearls, and the centre of each diamond contained a large crystal rose montee. They were made of pink silk crepe, and the designer was Michael Travis. Diane, Cindy and I performed there alongside Petula Clark, Engelbert Humperdinck and Diahann Carroll, and each of these gowns weighed about 35lb, although they didn’t feel that heavy when we had them on. ![]() W e called these the “Queen Mother” gowns because we wore them for the Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium in 1968. ![]()
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