Flora is pretty in cotton or chiffon, but linen suits this print particularly well. My linen shirtdress (Anna Sui spring 2010 runway) is poppied with violets & daisies; the fabric’s visibly spun threads are exposed like flowery veins. Linen’s sweet homespun quality is rooted in Little House on the Prairie girls: the first couturiers, they hand-sewed every frontier frock – happiness is a couture closet… Fashionshesays.com.