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Hi Forum,
I recently acquired a collection of glorious dresses in a job lot (you know the feeling when you're unwrapping a bundle of gloriousness that came in the morning post..), and have a few questions about two of the items.
*There are more more more of my questions and info inbetween the images*
First, this stunning heavy satin full length dress with a kind of rose+roseprint jacquard thing goin on, central box pleat to the front and amazing pleating to the back of the skirt from the v-dropped waist point... The zip has unfortunately been replaced with a nylon one (as had most of the dresses in the lot, I assume they had been someone's projects), but would y'all date as '50s/early '50s? It comes with an epic shawl that finishes almost in line with the dress, and matching handbag.
Second, this eye-poppingly glitsy number (that's gold and lime green thread you see before you), with the Global label- anyone come accross it before? There's an example on ebay US right now but other than that Google hasn't yielded much..
The previous owner was under the impresseion that it was a. very rare, and b. made in Paris- despite the "made in the british Crown Colony of Hong Kong".. I don't know about the very rare, it's certainly very very nice! Would the 'made in..' suggest it was for the export market, 60s stylie? Or designed in Paris and the construction 'outsourced' ..?
Thanks!
Ava
I recently acquired a collection of glorious dresses in a job lot (you know the feeling when you're unwrapping a bundle of gloriousness that came in the morning post..), and have a few questions about two of the items.
*There are more more more of my questions and info inbetween the images*
First, this stunning heavy satin full length dress with a kind of rose+roseprint jacquard thing goin on, central box pleat to the front and amazing pleating to the back of the skirt from the v-dropped waist point... The zip has unfortunately been replaced with a nylon one (as had most of the dresses in the lot, I assume they had been someone's projects), but would y'all date as '50s/early '50s? It comes with an epic shawl that finishes almost in line with the dress, and matching handbag.
Second, this eye-poppingly glitsy number (that's gold and lime green thread you see before you), with the Global label- anyone come accross it before? There's an example on ebay US right now but other than that Google hasn't yielded much..
The previous owner was under the impresseion that it was a. very rare, and b. made in Paris- despite the "made in the british Crown Colony of Hong Kong".. I don't know about the very rare, it's certainly very very nice! Would the 'made in..' suggest it was for the export market, 60s stylie? Or designed in Paris and the construction 'outsourced' ..?
Thanks!
Ava
