The bodice reads as a granny square knit. A repeated linear pattern, domestic and familiar like the waft of Imperial Mints from grannies handbag. It is only as your eye travels down to the skirt — where the Under the Sea design repeats irregularly across the fabric — that the grenades as coral and fish begin to make sense of what you were looking at above. The two halves are connected, and not just by the stitching.
