Vintage 60s Anne Fogarty Velvet Wiggle Dress

 Love this velvet wiggle dress by Anne Fogarty, her dresses are highly collectible. The brand came back a few years ago with a new launch and her original designs, I'm not too sure if they are still in business.

    This dress has just been listed on my Ebay collection at  Graveyard_999 today. Check it out by clicking the first photo. I marked it down due to condition, it has a small hole and mark on the back of skirt.Still a lovely dress.

1950s Black Sheath Dress with Overskirt

 
                         Here's a great LBD perfect for any special occasion.  Coming soon...

                             Measurements -bust 36-waist 27-28- hips 36- no flaws found

  Please email me at cabbiekat@hotmail.com if you need additional photos or information. Thanks!

Three LBD's coming soon...two 50s dresses and one 70s Victor Costa couture dress

 All these dresses will be in my Etsy shop coming real soon.....

Vintage Oleg Cassini Couture Dress Now on Sale

 Just picked up this couture dress at an estate sale,  so elegant. The dress is a throw back to the 60s one shoulder couture gown, that he designed for Jacqueline Kennedy. It was copied over and over again by all designers including Cassini , he revamped his original and made it affordable for all women to wear and look like a million dollars. This dress will be a perfect dress for any occasion, you will be a knock out for sure, and other women will be green with envy.

   This dress is more of a midi gown, with a nice one shoulder look and has an accent rhinestone brooch, so beautiful on. It drapes nicely on the bodice and has a long leg slit to show off your legs. It has a pretty abstract pattern of palms or some other kind of foliage , very 60s.

In great condition, only flaw is a few original rhinestones on the back of the brooch are missing, and some are coming loose needs to be secured with a thread and needle, I can fix it but I don't have any matching rhinestones, or I'll leave it up to you. The original label has been torn off, but there's a definitely a clear view of his curly O signature and his family crest in gold, this is made in Hong Kong, possibly from the 70s to the late 80s. The VFG has it listed as 90s, but I don't think so, I think it's from the late 80s. I could be wrong.

Measurements- Bust 34.5 or 36 tight there's some stretch since it really has no definite bodice
                         Waist- 30-32 some stretch
                          Hips- 36-40

 He designed costumes for many stars, including Veronica Lake, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Gene Tierney, and Natalie Wood. Some of the films he did costumes for included The Shanghai Gesture (1941), Tales of Manhattan (1942), The Razor's Edge (1946), and many more.
 info from    -http://www.notesontheroad.com/Ying-s-Links/Today-s-Birthday-in-Fashion-Oleg-Cassini.html

I love this photo of the happy couple-with his beautiful wife, actress Gene Tierney.

Here's my favorite dress he designed for the newcomer of 1952 Miss Marilyn Monroe- Note that this dress is a one shoulder style too, he was so ahead of fashion. A pure genius with design, wow!!!!
  

Please email me at cabbiekat@hotmail.com if you are interested in this garment. I will be listing it on my ETSY shop at To Dress Vintage, no longer Graveyard Vintage.

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My Marilyn Monroe inspired dress!

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And the one and only Marilyn in her fabulous Dior backless gown, wow!

 Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern from 1962. The back of this dress plunges in the back like mine, so now I can pin point the year  it was made from the late 50s to early 60s. Mine has a different cut and a lot tighter more of a wiggle dress compared to her Dior gown. It  has a  large satin bow with a plunging back or backless similar to hers, so glamourous.I think she would have loved to wear a dress like this, definitely her style.


    Here's Dree Hemingway in a reproduction of Monroe's 1962 Dior black gown. It's not the same dress,but such an inspiration very pretty indeed.