Gorgeous 1940s Yellow Dot & Deep Navy Black Chevron Print Silk Swing Dress designer-biba Trained in textiles

Trained in textiles

It is made from an almost weightless silk chiffon in black and onto the silk is are little squares of a black silk velvet set haphazardly over the silk

Item# C465

The fabric at the back of the inner bodice has deteriorated badly

This on is really unusual as it is a full length proper evening dress

Gorgeous 1940s Yellow Dot & Deep Navy Black Chevron Print Silk Swing Dress designer-biba Trained in textilesThis is one of those absolutely beautiful silk dresses that you can only find from the 1940s. It is in pretty fantastic shape and is just gorgeous to see. The colors are crisp and bright and have lost none of their impact over the last 80 or so years. The dress is made from a beautiful scarf weight silk in a bright yellow and a deep blue that is so dark that it is almost a black. The print combines those fantastic dots that you see with a striped