With their garments embellished all over by mother-of-pearl buttons, the “pearlies” are arguably one of the most colourful examples of working class culture in Britain.
This “saucepan lid” (=kid, for those of us not being fluently in cockney rhyming slang …) is the Pearly Princess of Highgate. I was fortunate enough to capture her at this years Pearly Kings and Queens Harvest Festival in London. Isn’t she adorable?
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