Sheer gauze polka dot dress

[plousia]

Hello lovely people, I saw a dress at Goodwill today and it's bugging the heck out of me. Wish I'd taken photos, but want to ask your opinions based on a description.

It is a long, sheer, gauzy dress in a light pink colour with tiny black polka dots. On what I assume was the front, each dot has a black bead sewn into the centre. It has a drop waist but not a straight across, sort of V maybe. It is sleeveless and the shoulders close with snaps. Inside the shoulders are white string loops through which pass the straps of a pink slip (no idea if the slip is original to the dress). It is tiny, like I don't know if it would fit one of my legs tiny.

It looked kind of like a 1930s style but I saw serged seams and discounted that idea. But I'm wondering, do those count it out as older absolutely? Is it more likely to be a recent revival style?

Thanks for any opinions, I know you can't tell very well without seeing photos but it's driving me a bit batty trying to figure it out.

 

[poppysvintageclothing]

Without the photo it is really difficult to say.

 

[plousia]

OK, I will try to get photos if I go back to Goodwill and it's still there, thanks.

 

[poppysvintageclothing]

Great...hope it still is there, with how you are describing it does sound like it could be early (the snaps at the shoulder)

 

[plousia]

Great...hope it still is there, with how you are describing it does sound like it could be early (the snaps at the shoulder)

That's exactly what I thought, that's why it's bugging me. I've never seen that in a modern dress. I will try to go back today. It is miniscule and I don't have a hope of getting it on, but I suppose I could try to sell it.

 

[plousia]

Went back to Goodwill and it was gone....I imagine someone smarter than me snapped it up. Now we'll never know...

 

[retro ruth]

I think many of us have been there: leaving something behind, can't stop wondering about it, going back - and it's gone. I know I have.