Bit of Gothic 50s Dress..... ?'s

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Bit of Gothic 50s Dress..... ?\'s

This reminds me of a Victorian mourning dress that has been revamped (I know it isn't), but the taffeta, ruching on the shoulder and the v'd picot trim lends itself to me thinking
it needs a mourning brooch with the dearly deceased
hair in it smack dab in the middle of the bodice!

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This is by Jonathan Logan.

Question.....the v'd trim....is there a name for it other than
picot (which I don't think is right in this case).

Sue:)
 
I had always associated picot with the type of stitching like you would find on a 20's or 30's nightie around the edges. But looking at my sewing book there is a picot edge ( but more cut into u's) so I learn something new everyday.

Looks like it was cut with giagantic pinkie shears.

wow I wasn't finished and started typing and it posted. thank god for the edit button.

I think its very pretty. But sorry I can't help you.
 
Sue -

A Goth 50's party dress ~ now <i>there's</i> something you don't see every day. Witchy <i>and</i> cute! I don't know of the correct technical term for the neck line teatment (if there is one - it's pretty unusual) - I'd probably just call it 'notched' and call it a day :) I think - hope - it'll attract a lot of attention, and bids ~

Carolyn
 
I associate black more with "bad girls" than mourning, lol. Hot little dress, Sue, wish I could think of a dramatic catch phrase for that neckline. It reminds me of a cracked Easter egg, lol, and I KNOW that is no help.
 
LOL on the cracked easter egg Timber - but you are right!

BAD Girls...never even thought of that. Actually it was more the combo of black taffeta, v'd trim on the neck and skirt and the ruching on the shoulders that made me think
Victorian mourning.

Sue
 
You could call that edge "dagged". I have a 30s dress right now with that edge on the sleeves.

Hollis
 
Hollis, I'm not familiar with that term - "dagged". Thank you

Sue:)
 
It's a medieval term really. It refered to the heavily cut sleeve hems on houppelands.(Big medieval/early renaissance robes) You see them illustrated in the Tres Riches Heures of the Duke of Burgundy. Sometime the edges are pointed like this, sometimes rounded, or even cut into leaf shapes. The bell sleeves were huge - often to the ground, so there was a lot of hem to play with.
Hollis
 
Hollis...thanks! Actually in reference to the medieval sleeves I have heard
this term used.....needed something to twig my memory though (to be honest, at first I thought you had made a typo and meant to put
"jagged" LOL)

good info on the 'dagged'!

Sue:)
 
bumping this up, as I just found out tonight in looking through an 1958 catalogue that the jagged treatment on the
skirt and neckline was called "pixie points".

Cool eh?

Sue:)
 
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