For years, when we conducted a garden tour and had our morning coffee and afternoon tea at the Gamble Ballroom at 5 Commonwealth Avenue, in the building then owned by the Boston Center for Adult Education, we used vintage 1940’s and 1950’s cotton tablecloths from a member’s private collection as toppers over white underskirts. Our signature look received a glamorous update this year with the addition of glistening green underskirts. Below is an example of one such cloth draping the wine station:
