Tuesday, June 5, 2012

THE GOWNS - THE SHOES 1948

Mrs. Edward Peter Bemberg
WHITE SILK SATIN AND PURE SILK SKIN
The dress trellised with white velvet grapes and gold lame vines by Fira Benenson  
Kodachrome - Louise Dahl-Wolfe

notice the pleating on the sweetheart bodice and the shoulder strap shaping directly under the arm 

THE NEWSY FRONT AND THE SURPRISE BACK
Velvet Dancing Pumps by La Valle
THREE LADY SLIPPERS
Rhinestone Buckles - Julianelli
Petal scalloped spindle heel - Julianelli
Delman's suede and calf dovetailed tab-back heel

shoes that remain fashionable seventy-plus years later

Larry Aldrich mauve dotted satin
Becoming
Because-
...the back is devine
Mollie Parnis

...the decolletage evening pajamas in pale grey-blue satin
Trigere


check the bracelet...the suggested shoe - a leopard sandal


The Beauty of It - when the dress is mauve satin with an enormously full skirt held out with a lining of stiffened satin with a separate stole - Mark Mooring design

Once popular mauve is a colour that has disappeared from fashion
although it's a great summer shade and dynamite with a tan

THE NIGHT WAS MADE FOR LACE
Lace over wool in the newest silhouette of the season. Wool sheath, narrow as can be under a sleeveless cape of Chantilly lace.

A shorter version with a swing jacket of lace would work equally well. The secret is the flimsiest of lace to wear as a float over drama.

Lace over pink silk taffeta embroidered with clusters of rhinestones bound tightly with a wide pink satin sash. Custom at Hattie Carnegie

Nice sleeve and neckline details

BLACK PAPER TAFFETA fitted tightly to a point low on the hips, then flaring as a flamenco dancer's dress. the low decolletage underlined by a band of heavy lace over flesh-coloured taffeta with a black taffeta flange.

Maurice Retner's dress to dance in. Burnished copper slipper satin with a fitted balance veiled in lace. The Shoes - Delman; Palter De Liso; I. Miller

More examples of the pretty toes that peep from beneath your evening finery - Julianelli; I. Miller; Renee Montague; Newton Elkin; Frank Brothers ...

SILK THAT STANDS ALONE
Valentina design in heavy Chinese red Silk damask. The sleeves, completely separate pull-ons.

Great sleeves for hiding unattractive arms, yet still affording a sexy neckline and back.

BLACK VELVET FLATTERY
Black velvet strapless with jet-embroidered jacket by Ceil Chapman

Black velvet piped in silk braid by Berenice Holloway
Fitted fantail jacket over straight skirt by Capri

When a formal's too formal - a black velvet suit




THE EVENING DRESS
Under a black velvet cartwheel Dior's shoulderless bodice and his celebrated evening skirt, like a sidesaddle skirt twisted to the back. 
AVEDON

MORE DIOR
Bodice shaped like a ships prow maintained by a built-in black velvet brassiere, the skirt falls in telephone book folds. 

The Directoire Dress in pleated gold of chiffon weight  
Marcelle Chaumont
AVEDON

WHITE CHIFFON AND MINK
Jean Desses

PERUGIA'S BRONZE KID SHOE EDGED WITH MINK
Shown in the Dior Collections, custom-made I. Miller

Everything old is new again















Balmain's Flower Wristlet

CHAMPANGE TASTES
Harper's Bazaar October 1948


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