The Alberta Ferretti ravishingly pretty ?tea? dress in a crinkled aquamarine chiffon for £310 sounds a snip. I might purchase a second one, in lemon. It'll can be my gardening dress - one in the eye for the 33 year old next door (with the very sad looking peonies and unkempt lawn edges and gosh, those short-shorts she wears).
I think Ask Lucia is like Mrs Mills and Psychic Psmith. It's a laugh, surely.
I dressed as a pirate for DS1's 5th birthday. But hey I was young.