Chartered Institute of Building Service Engineers dinner dance 1980

It was the annual dinner and dance for The Chartered Institute of Building Service Engineers held in the beautiful Art Deco Derry & Tom's building on Kensington High Street.

Remember wearing an Antony Price (the all important dress designer behind Roxy Music) silk jersey strapless dress, very cleverly ruched, in a gorgeous shade of grey with a hint of mauve, with very long matching gloves borrowed from Stella, my sister-in-law.  It was very Marilyn, 50's Hollywood Glamour. And memorably getting changed into it in the Portakabin on the new BT Headquarters at St Martin's le Grand in the City of London site he was project managing. The look on the faces of the men when I emerged was priceless: pun unintentional.