About Your Dress

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"About Your Dress"
Single by The Maccabees
from the album Colour it in
Released2007
Genre Indie pop, indie rock
Length3:35
Label Fiction
Songwriter(s) Rupert Jarvis, Robert Dylan Thomas, Orlando Weeks, Hugo White, Felix White

"About Your Dress" is the fourth single by British indie band The Maccabees, and their second to make the UK top 40, peaking at number thirty-three - their highest charting single to date. The video for the song has become famous due to the fact the band made it themselves with a homemade set of miniatures and costumes, all shot with minimal cost.

About Your Dress was the inspiration for the fashion, homewares and stationery blog of the same name. [1]

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References

  1. "About Your Dress blog". Archived from the original on 2011-02-09. Retrieved 2018-09-30.