LITTLE BLACK DRESS: This skirt has a very cool, local history.

A friend of mine's grandparents were the last managers of Green Island Resort before it was redeveloped by Daikyo.  And like any sensible person who resides on a tropical island, they had absolutely no desire to leave the island very often.  And they didn't. Hardly ever.

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Mrs Manager would receive a package of clothes once or twice a year from a shop in Cairns called Checkers, whose fashions suitably evoked the tropical island lifestyle – long sarong style wrap skirts and trousers, and matching midriff tops.  And the fabrics were just out of this world.

Thankfully a lot of these clothes weren’t put in the charity donation pile, instead lovingly packed away for many moons in memory of a fantastic and blessed life together on Green Island.

Humbly (and excitedly) I accepted a kind donation from my friend and remodelled this skirt to give it a new life on the mainland of Cairns.

It’s one of those pieces that I too will lovingly treasure forever.

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