I know... the phrase 'red dress' summons up lachrymose images of Chris de Burgh singing Lady in Red to Princess Di (although to me the words remind of the line in the old Tommy Tucker 1964 track Hi-Heel Sneakers where he sings "Put on your red dress baby, you know we're goin' out tonight" – the song was also covered by just about everybody who was anybody in the Sixties music scene) however what caught my eye here was the bright red dress with its every decreasing price tag – reduced from £750 to £250 to £125. It was only later, when I was looking at the image on a large screen, that I clocked the board at the side of the picture, with its long list of cosmetic beauty treatments. I guess for many women that is the downside of wearing a posh frock – the expectation (or maybe even the requirement)that it will be wrapped around an artificially toned and enhanced body. Bring me a rocket leaf salad without any dressing – and go easy on the leaves. Nah, not for me, crack open another tub of Pringles.



(Norwich, 14:25pm, August 25, 2007, f 3.5 - 1/125 - ISO 80)