Amazing 1980s Mary McFadden One Shoulder Pleated Two Piece Set Dress w Braided Belt osfa At the hem there is

At the hem there is a panel of the same silk that has been tightly gathered into a wide ruffle

The darker blue base follows the V of the neck and you see this border happen again on each cuff and at the hem

For contrast he used a blue cord embroidery to edge the neck

The skirt is dropped  and gathered into the low seam with soft pleats

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Amazing 1980s Mary McFadden One Shoulder Pleated Two Piece Set Dress w Braided Belt osfa At the hem there isMary McFadden patented her Fortuny inspired pleating technique just a couple of years after launching her label in 1973. By the eighties she had many licensing agreements and her dresses were being made on a larger scale. Mary was known to say frequently that there was no greater beauty than pleated cloth on the human body and she said then when she developed her 'marii' fabric her aim was to have it 'fall like liquid gold on the body, like Chinese