Vintage 1950’s Cocktail Party Dress
“Bal Masque” cocktail dress ca. 1958 via The Victoria & Albert Museum
“The Duchess of Windsor patronised top Paris designers throughout her life. Christian Dior was a particular favourite. She was sixty-two years old when she selected this black evening dress. It was called ‘Bal Masque’ and came from the 1958 spring-summer collection designed by Yves Saint Laurent for the house of Dior. The style of the dress is influenced by the bell-shaped skirts fashionable in the 1860s. This influence can also been seen in the way it has been constructed. This dress has a tightly fitted boned corset and a bell-shaped skirt supported by a layered petticoat.The lightweight overdress is made of a double layer of spotted black tulle. It is studded with sparkling black bugle beads which are arranged in festoons caught at intervals by 42 bows of satin ribbon. The dress buttons down the back.”
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This is a pretty amazing dress! The skirt print is exquisite. What is it?
Things that make me smile: Erin’s Tetris Dress. Erin’s blog is one of the reasons I started sewing, and the main reason I’m willing to be so silly in my fabric choices.
Le Tombeau des Secrets | Robe D’interieur, de Worth (via Pratt Libraries)
Illustrator: Barbier, George, 1882-1932
Designer: House of Worth
Date: 1922
Description: Orange indoor dress by Worth: Planche 7 in Gazette du Bon Genre, No. 1. Signed in lower left, “1922 George Barbier,” with monogram “CLV” in lower right.
Format: 1 print: pochoir, hand col.; 25 x 19 cm.
Publisher: Gazette du Bon Ton; distributed in the United States as Gazette du Bon Genre
Source: Pratt Institute Libraries, Special Collections 123840m (sc00159)
marsiouxpial:in powder and crinoline~kay nielsen.1913
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