It would never do to appear sedate and elderly before Melanie's sweet youthfulness. The lavender barred muslin was beautiful with those wide insets of lace and net about the hem, but it had never suited her type.
Note, also, that the teeth are inset from the outer surface of the skull, so that the chewed up plant material that is contained within the fleshy cheeks would not have dropped out of the mouth.
There was a deeply inset front door framed in a mosaic of multi-colored pieces of tiling and a small flower garden in front, behind a low stucco wall topped by an iron railing which the beach moisture had begun to corrode.