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1. Hello, my name is is Edwina and I’m always looking out for any Merivale and Mr John clothes for women, when i finally started working and studied as well I was able to afford to buy a number of Merivale clothes, many made to measure for me as then I was only a size 6 and I am finding some other gems I bought from there such as a Whiting and Davis mesh halter top and a red and white wrap around skirt. I would really love to find a replica of a primrose (pale yellow) lightweight fabric dress, with a full skirt that would blow up in the wind like Marilyn’s not pleated mid sized self cover fabric belt with metal holes the top was short sleeve perhaps it was halter neck but if you would ever come across a dress sounding similar but now in a size 14 or 16 and be willing to part with it I would be happy to pay an excellent price as it gives me fond memories of my being allowed to have a boyfriend I was 19 but to her. She hated him because he was Roman Catholic! My father had nothing against him. And I remember walking down from Bent St where I worked as a trainee chartered accountant (up near Circular Quay) walking down past Central Station ( he worked for John Kaldor) walking in my high heel Mr Christian Australian made shoes holding onto my matching clutch purse also made by Mr Christian walking down 3 cross streets where the wind swelled uplifting me my skirt as I was fighting to keep the skirt down and hold a folding clutch bag!
   My size is larger now as I have had both shoulder joints replaced because of a negligent psychiatrist who changed my dose of Epilim as I get seizures from 1200mg to 200 mg I was in a private hospital and I told him not to do that as he was a psychiatrist and not a neurologist and I feared that night I would have a seizure and worse than that I had a grand mal seizure was found in a dumpster bin with broken shoulders and when they found me sent me to Westmead Hospital in Sydney where they stabilised my seizure and sent me back to the private hospital with the doctor in charge that morning telling the paramedics to send me back to the hospital as my shoulders were not in place.
   I then found out that correction of shoulders is not covered by Medicare. Luckily if anything could go right I was now bound up in a garment like a straight jacket a shoulder specialist visited the hospital that day and explained that I had to have my shoulders operated on otherwise spikes would grow out from my ribs and permanently attach them to my side. Most kindly as i am right handed he offered to operate on my right shoulder for free as he still had operation rights at Manly Hospital before it was stupidly pulled down by the NSW Government and replaced with the Northern Beaches Hospital half private half government funded just giving the outsourced the profits they run on sub standard medical equipment and a number of children have died there recently.
   I was lucky the great surgeon successfully operated on my right shoulder and with about 6 months of physical rehab it was on its way to recovery. It took 3 operations in another private hospital which even although I have too cover on my medical and hospital insurance left me around $50k out of pocket plus more physical rehab after each surgery.

2. Sorry to hear about your shoulder, Edwina. I haven’t seen a Merivale like that, but I will keep my eye out. I hope your recovery is going well.