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- Updated: December 12, 2016
Betty Clifford
Betty Clifford recalls sitting in a credentials for a repository fire during a belligerent building of her Perry Road mansion, Peace Haven, a Bandra landmark. “I was wearing a red dress and we usually see a bit of it in a photograph. Yet, it hold everyone’s attention,” says Clifford, whose business travels (she was in a shipping industry) have led her to shops opposite a universe — Europe, Middle East, a Far East — and resulted in several closets and suitcases full of clothes, many of that she confesses to not carrying ragged even once given bringing them home.
“When we were children, we didn’t have many of a contend in what we wore. Our relatives would collect out a clothes. It was usually when we was doing a secretarial march in London that we indulged my passion for clothes,” says Clifford, who has now, in an try to de-clutter, split with some equipment from her selected collection for a pop-up during a Bandra store Lifafaa (run by Meenal Agarwal), curated by conform consultant and stylist Nikhil D. “I was also operative during a Scout HQ during a time and we’d get paid any Friday. The subsequent Thursday, a other women from a bureau and we would make a beeline to a late night shops on Oxford Street,” she adds. Marks and Spencers and CA were her favourites for their grand garments that were easy on her wallet. “At MS, a many costly dress during a time cost £5, that was affordable. At office, a ladies would set adult a conform march to out-dress any other,” she laughs, sitting on one of a selected seat sets that line her 85-year-old Grade A birthright home.
When she was going by a sari phase, she bought 100 of them. Later, she switched to suits. “It was easier to transport in them. Also, when my mom was around, we would go with her to church and keep income and other things in my pockets, that was available compared to carrying a handbag. Even now, during winters we lift out my suits and wear a new one any day,” she smiles.
This pastel blue dress is one of a dusk dresses, memories of evenings that Clifford recalls fondly. “My mom would get dissapoint if we stayed behind late. So, we began to take her along,” she smiles. The parties were mostly cocktail parties organized for central purposes, and would be hold during a city’s plush five-stars. While a prolonged dusk gowns, today’s maxis, were renouned among a expats’ wives, many Indian women wore saris.
This is a sports tip from a store, Clifford doesn’t remember which. Often she says, she’d stop and collect adult a dress only since she favourite it. The compulsive customer (her difference not ours), says she was once in a English panorama when she saw a dress unresolved in a tiny shop, on sale for £1. “I insisted on shopping it even yet a peddler told me it would not fit me. we never wore it, though we couldn’t let a discount go,” she smiles. Clifford skeleton to give a income from a sales to St Andrew’s parish, that completes 400 years. She has formerly donated some of her garments to St Catherine’s Orphanage during Mt Mary.
The plan took 3 weeks to execute, with Nikhil altering some of a garments to make them seem reduction costume-ish. This striped silk blouse, Clifford says, she picked adult in Switzerland, since utterly simply, she favourite a colours. “I picked adult a pinkish festooned blouse from a emporium in Manila and afterwards bought it in 3 other colours – yellow, pink and turquoise,” she adds. She doesn’t know what fabric they are done of; it’s not her clever point. Most of a blouses on sale on Thursday, she’s never worn. “When I’d brought a striped one back, we suspicion it was too loud. Others, we had simply lost about.”
This pleated midi skirt, that is all a fury now, is among Clifford’s immeasurable collection. “I remember travelling on a trains in a ’70s and ’80s on stilettos and dresses bought from a UK, my hair tied with a scarf, or, wearing hats to church. Even now people remember them. It was fun,” she smiles.