Did you enjoy Milly Molly Mandy books when you were very young? Popular over almost 80 years, there must be a lot of us around. A series of stories written by Joyce Lankester Brisley between 1928 and 1967 about a busy little girl growing up in a rather idyllic rural English village.
The best versions of her books had a map inside the front and back covers showing the village where Milly Molly Mandy lived, with all places of interest marked including ‘little friend Susan’s house’ . Seeing this again takes me right back to my childhood.
Milly Molly Mandy was well known for always wearing a pink and white striped dress. My mum had a couple of striped summer dress in the late 50’s and whenever I see pink and white striped fabric it always brings to mind 1950’s style dresses with full skirts and fitted tops and Milly Molly Mandy..
Crisp poly-cotton candy striped fabric which could be used with stripes vertically or horizontally or a combination of both.
Crisp clean light-medium weight dress fabric from my ebay shop.
Ali Vintage Fabric 
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