Frock Me Silly!

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel fitting a model in her Paris atelier, date unknown.

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Dramatic Simplicity.

Striped Skirted Dress w/ Fur Trim. Vintage Norman Norell, photographed 1968 for Harper’s Bazaar

Vintage Traina-Morell, circa 1955

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Pierre Balmain evening dress ca. 1950-1955 via The Victoria & Albert Museum

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Charles James dinner dress ca. 1941 via The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Evening dress ca. 1938 via The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“Though there are separate specialists for applied braid and fringe, known as the crépinières, Vionnet chose in this instance to employ an embroidery of individual graduated lengths of silk thread passed and looped through the fabric, with each thread forming two drops of fringe. The scallop arcs constitute the sole decoration of the dress.”

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Evening dresses ca. 1938 via The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Betty Grable

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Absolutely Gorgeous.  That shoulder….

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House of Worth | c. 1960