Penelope - Tana Lawn (midi variant)
Elegant and cheerful. Penelope is your go to for comfort and fabulousness! Breezy from the bust down thanks to a loose fit and silky soft Liberty cotton Tana Lawn fabric. We have made it more fitted around the shoulders and bust, with pleats and darts at the shoulders. Cinch in at waist with fabric sash, included.
For other styling and garment variations - see additional Penelope listings.
Garment features
Luxury
Finished with French seams
Individually cut and sewn in our Australian atelier
Customisations welcome, most at no additional cost
Made from Liberty Fabric Tana Lawn or your custom fabric, we recommend a Liberty Tana Lawn, Liberty silk CDC or silk twills. Our favourite fabric suppliers for this gown are Alla Moda Fabric, The Fabric Store & Tessuti Fabrics.
Comfortable
100% cotton
Made from silky soft, light Tana Lawn TM
No hard trims
Easy to put on
Pulls over head
Free from zips and buttons
No hard trim
Made with Tana Lawn TM Liberty Fabric.
First sold in London in the 1920s, Liberty buyer William Hayes Dorell named the famous cotton after Lake Tana, where the Egyptian cotton had been grown and discovered. Back on home soil, the silk-like long staple threads were spun into lustrous form and printed in Lancashire using copper rollers with brilliant coloured dyes. A material was born With qualities that have sparked the imagination of generations to follow. It was, of course, Tana LawnTM.
A famous masterpiece of fabric technology, Tana LawnTM is fine, cool and durable with a silk-like feel. A perfect fabric quality to achieve a brilliant reproduction of Liberty’s rich textile designs. Its bespoke process has been fine-tuned by Liberty Fabrics experts over the last 100 years, advancing the products performance, perfecting the printing quality and detail that can be achieved. Today, Tana LawnTM is continually evolving as Liberty Fabrics refines its methods and works with new technologies to secure its reputation as the best printed cotton available.
Liberty Fabrics is a member of both EU REACH and BCI (Better Cotton Initiative); and is OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certified. Cotton is a renewable resource that is biodegradable.
Supporting the Australian textile industry
Garments cut and sewn in our atelier, QLD, Australia
Garment labels made in Australia by Ted & Toot, WA
Available with matching fabric covered buttons prepared in Australia by M Recht Accessories
Fabric sourced from Brisbane’s The Fabric Store