This is a striking and beautiful thirties dress that is made from a black machine lace that is pieced on the bias so that is skims over the body and moves where it needs to to accommodate and accentuate your curves
This fabric tends to show very slight creases where it bends where worn and these are lightly apparent through the waist area
10" from top to bottom and 12" across in it's completely flat unstretched state
Its spectacular - really a work of art
It then falls from the base of the V into a dramatic cascade of long fringe knotted with wood beads
Late 1970s Oleg Cassini Extensively Beaded & Panelled Skirt Black Silk Chiffon Dress designer-rosie-assoulin This is a striking andI think our modern world forgets just how important Oleg Cassini was as a designer in his heyday. From his first film in 1941 he was responsible for many of the best looks on film, dressing stars like Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney (who he married), Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner and the list goes on and on. In 1952, he opened his own fashion house on Seventh Avenue. By 1961 he was appointed by Jacqueline Kennedy as her exclusive couturier.