Sometimes people take a while to work up to ordering their first Dandy & Rose shirt.

It’s at least a couple of years since Declan Culliton, over there in Ireland, started following Dandy & Rose and saying that he was hoping his wife and daughters would buy him a shirt for Christmas. Well, they must have taken the hint!

And look what a beautiful print he has chosen!

It’s from Liberty’s recent Alice in Wonderland range, and came out of an Alice-themed tour of Oxford that the Liberty Design Studio took, in search of inspiration. The landscape is the Christ Church Water Meadows, where Charles Dodgson took young Alice Liddell and her sisters on boat trips while he was writing his famous book, published under his nom de plume, Lewis Carroll.

There is something about those lilac tree trunks that is absolutely magical!

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