UNGARO Dress, Puzzling Silk

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Lynn

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I've had this dress for several years and I'm trying to figure out what to call the fabric instead of just "silk" in my listing. It feels feathery or furry. I hope these photos will show the texture. I'm having the worst time describing it! Can anyone help? Thanks!





 
Lynn, it looks like it might be a "peach skin" silk. It's a very high quality, rich silk that has an almost fluffy feel to it, and a dusty look. It's particularly lush.

Nicole
 
PEACH SKIN! THAT is what I was trying to think of! I knew it felt like something familiar!

It is VERY lush, it feels wonderful! It also looks "dusty" though I hated to use that word! THANK YOU so much!!

Lynn
 
We used to call it sueded silk. If it's what I think it is, there was a lingerie line I used to buy that used it. The rep said it was silk charmeuse satin that was distressed with pumice after it was woven, similar to stonewash denim.
 
My intial response is to call it silk charmeuse. Yours is a little "fuzzier" but it basically looks like silk charmeuse - to me. If you Google silk charmeuse and click on images I think it looks like that.

Linn
 
Linn, charmeuse is similar but lacks the fluffy feel and dusty appearance - I'm sure they're close together in the silk weave family. They're both rich and heavy, with a nice drape.

Eileen, I'm not familiar with sueded silk but the process sounds like it could produce a peach skin, so maybe they are the same?

Nicole
 
Thank you for all the responses! You guys are great!

Now, one more question (sorry!!) How would you price a dress like this?

Lynn
 
It certainly seems that this started out as a basic silk charmeuse weave, then was finished in some way to produce the fuzzy feel. I'm guessing that sueded silk and peachskin (thanks to Nicole for the memory jog--I can never, ever remember the term, but I remember the feel!) silk might be the same, or very close. Peachskin isn't, as far as I've ever assumed, a normal or "natural" type of finish for silk--I've guessed it had something "done" to it to make it napped, but had no idea what that might have been.....

Can't help you with pricing--I do not have much luck at all with this type/age of dress.
 
Eileen, that's exactly how I would identify/describe it. I absolutely recall lingerie and fashions, done in this fabrication. Nicole, I should think it's the same, just a variation in naming, as the hand and appearance are unmistakeable.

Really hard to say on pricing, Lynn; it's a lovely, elegantly classic style.
I tend to fall for Ungaro's silk prints:
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I had a similar dress a few years back and was unable to describe the texture as well. I'm so happy to have a name for it now!:clapping:

Price?? My advice is to do some research and see what the range for Ungaro silks is and decide what you feel comfortable with. Yours is chic and very wearable, some ladies just cannot do the wild prints, I'm sure you'll do well.:cool:
 
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