1930s Bias Cut Silk & Chenille Dress w Amazing Silk Metallic Lame Balloon Sleeves designer-isabelle-allard Under the top ruffle there

Under the top ruffle there is a fitted pencil skirt but over that is draped that fantastic ruffled edged panel of fabric that swoops around the hip and up one side

It slips over the neck and then plunges down extremely low to the band at the front waist

The bodice above the nipped in waist is classic forties with short cap sleeves and a V neck that meets in a soft pleating detail at the center front

Skirt: 24" from waist to hem with 2

1930s Bias Cut Silk & Chenille Dress w Amazing Silk Metallic Lame Balloon Sleeves designer-isabelle-allard Under the top ruffle thereThis is one of a dozen dresses from a single owner collection of beautiful 1930s dresses and I am very pleased to have this small capsule for you. Her collection was lovingly sourced over decades and she has decided that it is time let them back out into the world for others to enjoy. Outstanding designs from this era are increasingly hard to find. Her collection represents some of the best of the era that I have seen in a very long time. Most are in