1920s Remarkable Silk Peach Shift Dress designer-yves-saint-laurent The front plunges to the

The front plunges to the waist and is wired inside so that it stays perfectly in place

The top layer is then beaded with little rows of seed beaded interspersed with gold metallic thread to form a checked pattern

So my team and I were thrilled to find this Spring 1980 ad for this same Missoni dress in a different colorway

This went on to influence many of her future significant prints

This dress is so fantastic I find it hard to begin and it is almost impossible to find these studded dresses from the 1940s anymore

1920s Remarkable Silk Peach Shift Dress designer-yves-saint-laurent The front plunges to theDay dresses from the twenties are a little harder to find and its surprising that sometime a fabulous day dress can be as valuable and collectible as their over the top, extravagant, evening counterparts! It boils down tot he simple fact that a girl would have worn her day dresses to pieces back then! This was probably a dress that fell in between the two it is so beautiful and finely done that it would have been for special day events. Can you not